School choices?

Question

Hi all!
My son is 3 years old now and i am starting my research on school options for him.
So far as I understand it I have the following options: Public, private, charter schools and homeschooling. I am leaning towards private school now (i know some of them are very expensive). I just wanted to ask about your experiences. What did you chose for your child? What would you recommend? Thank you.

Answer 1

It really depends on where you live, my 5 yo son is in a private, non-parochial school in the Washington DC metro area. It is expensive, but my wife and I believe it is worth it.

Answer 2

Private? or charter i would say...private meaning catholic? I wouldn't push any faith on a child these days especially ones that can't communicate as well as an older child. Home schooled children i know a lot of ppl love them but from what i have seen the interaction isn't enough and they need to get out and away from the home. Public there isn't anything wrong with public school as long as your involved which it sounds like you would be seeing your searching already. I know my cousin went to private and had a wonderful experience but wished she went to public. She said she could have gotten the same as public she is at the top of her senior class in med school right now and concidering going another 4 yrs! so it is all in how you are as a parent and the drive in the family get your child involved in sports and mind activities early is the key no matter where they go to school.
i have 2 kids girl 16 and boy 10 both so far public and great..my son is going to a charter school in 6th grade he got a sports scholorship for soccer fully paid for 25,000 a yr...very hard to get in in the boston area and we're very excited but public all the way before that..no religous school we were very foutunate as long as your involved you child will be okay even if your in a low - middle class. It's all in how you interact with your school district and children

Answer 3

It is not so much the school it is how he learns.

Most schools are based on a Bi-intelligence approach. That is to say they Language and maths. However, most people are not to a high level in those intelligences. Also most schools use only 2 of the 4 learning styles again this therefore limits most. It is evident in the old Grammar / Secondary Modern school system. Grammars creamed off the 20% that were intelligent in language and maths leaving the rest (80%) to suffer SMs.

Unfortunately because of political interference in schools, we now have 90% of schools as Grammar schools because the modern comprehensive is really just a Grammar school with out selection. This is of course worse because then the children who are not L&M intelligen just get taught poorly.

So how to help your child.

look up mutlip intelingences and check him out

'Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century' by Colin Rose and Malcolm J. Nicholl

Anything by Tony Buzan

By using these tools your son can have up tp 300% better results all the way to his Phd

Answer 4

So much depends on where you live. My children all went to public school; but we're in a college town and the school district is very good (although there are a lot of excellent private and charter schools). Anyway, I'd not have done anything different. Schools with high parent involvement make a huge difference. Better to save your money for college then send to a private school if the public school performs equally well. One note of experience... doesn't matter where you send you kid to middle school. That is just a bad age (11-14). Kids are mean, mean, mean and tough on each other.

Answer 5

It all depends. There are a variety of factors that you should consider when making this choice. I'd say the quality of the public schools (including class size) would be a major factor. Sometimes public schools are as good (or better) than private schools. On the other hand, in many places, your child would get a much better education in a private school.

Answer 6

Private Schools -
Secluded
Around the same people
Expensive
Strict

Public
Very Diverse group of students (Good)
Very Diverse group of students (Bad)
Usually free or inexpensive
Learn a lot not only from the curriculum but from your friends.
Not really strict

Homeschooling:
Not Around People
Cheap
Learn whatever you teach.
Won't get that experience of being around a lot of people and being in the diverse atmosphere
Social level could be effected!!

I went to a public school and i enjoyed every bit of it.

Answer 7

Nono private schools. Private schools usually produce snobby children who thinks they are more superior than the others and despite appearing to be stricter, is actually much more slacked and gangs and cliques and bullying often occurs. In my country...usually the academically lousier ones go to privates. Whereas in public... your child is opened to more friends..and learning to socialise with them is important at his age. He is also bound to encounter more circumstances and situations which will help him to develop and learn..which some private schools can't fulfill.

Answer 8

My sister sent her kids to private christian school. When her oldest son got of middle school age, he asked to go to public school. Her youngest is still in private. Both of her children are very well mannered boys with good morals. It's how you raise them not where they go to school.

Answer 9

Unfortunately, mine all went to public schools. If you can work it out, definitely get them into private schools. My kids were doing math in high school that I learned in fourth and fifth grade in a private (Catholic) school. While spelling and grammar ALWAYS counted in private school, they don't always in public school. I find it especially disheartening when the TEACHERS have bad grammar and spelling! I've known many high school graduates who couldn't spell, or compose the simplest of letters properly. By the way, these weren't "inner city" schools, they were "lily-white" suburban schools with huge budgets.
I regret that we couldn't send ours to private schools, don't make the same mistake we did.

Answer 10

Throw him out the window.