we just had bad experiences with our schools here which included: **My daughter learning to write her last name in kindegarten only to be told by the teacher that they don't do that until 1st grade. **My daughter reading well above her grade level but only allowed to pick books from the library from the kindegarten section. **The school rotating problem children in and out of class rooms to spread the behavior problems instead of addressing them. **The school assigning so much homework that it became a several hour ordeal each night. **The problems with certain children whose parents didn't really seem to care about their behavior
When my daughter finished her first year of kindegarten, we made the decision to move her then. The Montessori school we moved to asked if we would mind holding her back a year because she didn't have the knowledge level of the 1st years. 1st graders were already doing division while my daughter had only recently been introduced to subtraction. There were several other things too. After the first year in the Montessori's Preprimary Extension class, my daughter took her Iowa Basic Skills test and got results of 2.5 ~ 2.6 in both reading and math, which translates to 2nd grade 5 month. but really, it all comes down to where your are. I think Texas blows educationwise. My public elementary school in Colorado, was very advanced and I've noticed a ton of similarities between it and the Montessori. When I moved from CO to SD, I was a little bit ahead of my peers, but SD made pretty decent strides with creating a Gifted & Talented class during my first year there. When I moved to Texas in my 8th grade year, I was given 2 periods as office aid and a free form study hall all because I had already done the subjects available and there were no advanced options for me. On 10/6/07, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never understood the whole private school thing. Can someone give me a > reasonable explanation why we need them? Maybe I am naïve since I never > attended a private school. > > Bruce > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:59 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: This is killing me! > > The realization that we can't afford private school for all 3 kids at > our current spending level has hit hard. I've decided, among other > things, is that I don't really need to be driving my big truck with a > $500 payment and a $300 fuel bill each month. > > I'm gonna swallow my pride and get something smaller and more > economical. And even though the Kawasaki Ninja 250R gets 70 mpg, my > wife won't allow it :). So now I'm debating what to get. I drive > around 28k a year pretty much back and forth to work with a commute > time of 2 hours total on a good day. Bad days 3 to 4 hours. > > I've been looking at used jetta tdi's in the 12k range which > corresponds with mileage around 100k. They get somewhere between 40 > and 50 mpg and are especially good with highway mileage (I drive about > 95% highway) > > I've also been looking at used prius's since new ones are around $27k, > but I'm just not sure how long the batteries will last before needing > to be replaced. > > Thirdly, there's the ultra cheap new cars, Kia Rio, Hyundai Accent, > etc. It'd be nice to get something with a long warranty, I'm just not > sure I'd like driving these this much. > > Sometimes I wish I didn't love my girls as much as I do :) > > zB > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243743 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
