Non-Traditional Education?

Selenay · 01-10-2010, 03:01 AM

What is "traditional" education?

A public school in the neighborhood?

A public school outside of the neighborhood?

A public school with selective admissions?

Toughy · 01-10-2010, 09:46 AM

I was born in 1952...........there were no 'alternative education' programs. It was public school and in my home town that was the only game in town.

I really had no idea private school existed until I was in the 9th grade and one of my best friends got pregnant and was shipped of to a private boarding school in Phoenix.

MsDemeanor · 01-10-2010, 11:47 AM

The military moved us all the time and always mid-school year, so I was in a new school many Februarys and then sometimes changed schools again in September (going from 6th to 7th grade for example) and sometimes they were civilian schools and sometimes they were on-base schools. In total, I went to 11 different schools between K and 9 and one high school. Does that fall under "traditional" or "non-traditional"?

BornBronson · 02-21-2010, 03:18 PM

If traditional schooling means staying in one city,town,ect,until you graduated from high school.Then no,mine was very non-traditional.

Btw,I believe in home schooling is the best form of education.

I mean,just look how I turned out.

What?

Words · 02-21-2010, 03:54 PM

Two of my three kids spent about two years in a Waldorf School. From a social point of view, it was wonderful. Academically? A disaster. Perhaps if they'd been there from the get go, but they hadn't, they'd been in mainstream education so as far as they were concerned, going to a Waldorf school was like one big extended holiday. (Let's face it, how many kids would choose to do homework if they knew there was no 'punishment' for not doing it?)

So, did I do the right thing in sending them there? I think so, if for no other reason - they were the only Palestinian kids in what, until then, had been a school for Israeli kids - than it allowed them to form their own opinions about Israelis and to appreciate that not all Israelis are the enemy. BUT, I do feel - and I think the guilt surrounding this will stay with me forever - that from an academic educational point of view (rather than a 'life' educational point of view) I did them a huge disservice.

*Sigh.* Yet one more thing to feel guilty about. Ugh.

Words

View Poll Results: If your elementary/grade school education was US-based, did you attend a:
traditional/public school	27	77.14%
traditional private school	5	14.29%
non-traditional school/program	3	8.57%
home school program	0	0%
other	0	0%
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