«Sixteen percent of our kids graduate from four - year colleges, compared to less than 5 percent
of public school kids in our neighborhoods; and it's only 3 percent of CPS Latinos and 4 percent of CPS blacks who graduate from college.»
Today, fourteen cities have at 30 percent
of their public school kids in charters.
It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half
of public school kids are «poor.»
But far more importantly, this plan upsets me as a parent
of public school kids.
He said, you know, in the 12 years
of public schooling these kids have been given, taxpayers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars getting them ready to go to college.
Not exact matches
One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended
public high
school for a decade, starting in middle
school, found that «by the age
of 22, these «cool
kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.
«We're staffed to really support not just independent private
schools like ourselves, but in the future,
public schools where the majority
of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.
If you're looking to raise one
of the most powerful business leaders in the world, you might want to send your
kid to Hyderabad
Public School, Begumpet, in India.
Bill Gates was the most
public face
of Microsoft, but
of course the company started as a partnership with the
kid Gates met one day in a group
of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high
school.
Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their
kid to the
public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home
school of their choice.
«They still want good restaurants, but now it's also about space, affordability and being able to send their
kids to a good
public school,» said Paternite, 45, who said that about 70 percent
of her business now comes from young families who are making the move from Brooklyn or Manhattan.
'' it's perfectly legal to take pictures in a
public area» Hang around a grade
school taking pictures
of the
kids and we'll see how your «internet law degree» holds up in court.
Although the issue
of homeschool student participation in
public high
school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our
kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success
of our local high....
The secular humanist
public schools are always on about persecution, hoping to entice
kids into believing that if they leave their faith they will be part
of the «majority» and therefore safer.
Would you want your
kids subjected to his kind
of religious influence at a
PUBLIC school?
In fact I bet you're one
of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide
public schools for their
kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.
Would you want your
kids feeling that kind
of religious pressure and invasion at a
PUBLIC school??
A vast majority
of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that
school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income
kids, because their
public schools tend to have the most problems.»
More and more
public schools are defying the low expectations
of kids in low - income communities.
Especially, if belief in Santa was affecting their behavior — like demanding that my
kids pray to Santa in the
public schools, and that certain people's rights must be curtailed because
of their belief in Santa.
Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts
of how poor
kids get cheated by the tightwad
public schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society
of the United States.
It will require hard stands at key moments — harder and more costly than merely pulling
kids out
of public schools, for example.
However teaching creationism in
public schools as a scientific reality on the order
of evolution damages
kid's critical thinking.
However, you should really also add the percent
of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number
of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to
public schools).
one
of the things that drew me to my current church was that the pastor's
kids went to
school with mine at the local
public school ---- good
kids but not perfect, and they are okay with that.
After all, implicit in Ms. Rhee's statement is the suggestion that if you have the wherewithal to get your
kids out
of the D.C.
public schools, you have a parental obligation to do it.
How are you about using tax money to put a big fat elephant - headed Ganesh on top
of your
kid's
public school, or to buy new Qurans for every single student to study?
Guns are in
schools because quite obviously
kids are able to get them with relative ease, not because the govt took forced prayer out
of public schools.
I want to introduce my
kids to a God who is both personal and
public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at
school and who also cares about the systems
of injustice and oppression in this world.
Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective
public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high
schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz
kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes
of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.
At the
public charter
school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot
of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich
kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»
When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when
kids in
school have to be subjected to demonstrations
of gay bedroom life when the mayor
of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches
public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people
of the US with all the cost completely covered.
Unless it comes down to trying to force
kids in
public school to pray today I don't think it's that big
of a deal.
The beauty
of private
school is that my children routinely outperform the
public school kids and remain free to hear the word.
I just know I personally would not send my
kid to an all - day government - run pre-K and the state
of the U.S. economy and
public schools such as they are right now, I don't think adding more responsibilities to them and throwing more money at them is something I'm on board with.
Part
of the reason for this is that so many choose to send their
kids to private
school and have no interest whatsoever in improving the
public schools.
i know a lot
of people who have regretted starting their
kids in
public school because it either makes it harder for them to get used to the idea
of learning from mom or because they form attachments at
school and don't want to be homeschooled.
I hope there will be more options available when the time comes in the way
of tax breaks or vouchers for those who decide not to send their
kids to
public schools.
Although my heart wants to home
school or unschool Ava, I'm not giving in and instead am leaving her in
public school for kindergarten (in a class
of 25
kids) this year.
Of course, I was a public school kid, who had a crazy family life, and here I am, a decent human being:) This is an important decision, although your child won't necessarily be «ruined» whichever choice you make:) That was more like a dollar's worth of advic
Of course, I was a
public school kid, who had a crazy family life, and here I am, a decent human being:) This is an important decision, although your child won't necessarily be «ruined» whichever choice you make:) That was more like a dollar's worth
of advic
of advice!
What are N.C.
Public Schools doing to improve meals
kids eat at
school in the wake
of new regulations and programs designed to improve childhood health.
There are millions
of poor
kids who only eat because
of free and reduced - cost meal programs at
public schools, and still tons
of kids are running meal account deficits because their parents can't or won't pay their account balances, and it's the
kids who suffer in that case.
I'm glad Jezebel got a hold
of this and made it
public so at least we can all know what we're potentially up against when sending our own
kids to high
school.
Many
of the
schools we serve are private
schools, and the
public districts we do serve have Free and Reduced rates below 10 % [i.e, fewer than 10 %
of the
kids qualify for free or reduced price lunch.]
But in terms
of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two
kids are now old veterans
of public elementary
school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share
of barking lunch room monitors.
We have friends whose
kids are going to the
public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest
of the day; their little ones are already stressed out because they have just 2.75 hours in
school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains
of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for lunch while foregoing rest time in favor
of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»
But what a crazy system we have, if the people closest to the day - to - day reality
of school are essentially excluded from the
public debate over how we educate our
kids.
By Laura PeuquetWhile the health
of America's youth has been part
of political and
public conversations for some time, the Healthy Hunger - Free
Kids Act (HHFKA) brought
school food nutrition to the national forefront and paved the way for significant progress towards better
school food.
Janis Groomes, food service director at Northport
Public Schools, knows the power
of school gardens to get
kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...
As Chicago
Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out
of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about
kids» allergies