Starr1258

In My Own Words

I have recently left a school that in my opinion was horrendous in every way possible. It was the only school within an 18 mile radius and private schools in the area were not affordable. They were just as bad anyway. I'm moving to Maine as soon as we sell our home in rural SC. When moving here, I checked on schools in the area as any parent would do and found many schools that said they were Blue Ribbon winners etc. I feel lied to. You don't really know a school until you've experienced the school and from different parts of the country you're left to distinguish the good from the bad on your own. I am always surfing on the Great Schools site and will not even look at a property unless there are several top rated schools in the area. Right now I'm in limbo and have decided to homeschool for 6th grade. It's very frustrating to go through the numerous homeschooling programs and decide which is best for my child. I'm financially limited which makes it harder. My favorite schools from the past have been pioneer schools with art and music being taken seriously. I'll mention Resica Elementary in Marshalls Creek, PA, also Smithfield Elementary in East Stroudsburg, PA. As for Charter Schools.... Chancellor Charter School in Lantana, FL was the best. The children in all these schools I've mentioned took great pride in their schools and in their learning process. My hats off to you all for wonderful structure.

Parents I'd Like to Meet

I guess I'd most like to conference with parents of Gifted Children who are as frustrated as me with the national school system. Teachers need to have more leeway with their teaching. There are way too many pc regulations which constrict their way of teaching. I'll assume that if one becomes a teacher it is because they want to make a difference in a childs life. They are excited to teach and then they're hit with all these rules and regulations. Kids come away from the school uneducated. How does that happen? Teachers need to be more finely tuned where the gifted child is concerned. I've heard idiotic things where a teacher threatens to take a child out of the gifted classroom because they think it's just a special reward to be there. NO !!!! You can't take the giftedness out of a child so lighten up and understand that a good percentage of these kids will be our future pioneers and respect that fact. My daughter was so emotionally mistreated because she was different. We are a family of northerners in a rural SC school. Need I say more. No Mam !!!!!