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- From: elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green)
- Message-ID: <00727675819@elgamy.jpunix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:10:19 CDT
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Challenged Kid needs Help - What to do?
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- Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home
- References: <1993Jan18.211111.10062@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- From article <1993Jan18.211111.10062@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, by osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X):
- > In article <1993Jan14.154637.904@b23a.b23a.ingr.com> alfa@b23a.b23a.ingr.com (Laura Walker) writes:
- >>
- >>Jessica attends a parochial Catholic school; one that adheres to traditional
- >>teaching methods.
- >
- > My condolences to the poor child.
- >
- >>The student-teacher ratio in her class is 30:1 and is
- >>taught by a lay teacher (not a clergy person).
- >
- > 30:1??! In a PRIVATE school. I'd get that child the hell out of
-
- 30:1 is typical for a parochial Catholic school. Catholic schools are
- typically run on very "traditional" grounds, on very low budgets (less than
- half of the per-pupil expenditures of the public schools).
-
- The flip side is that Catholic schools produce students who perform much
- better than public school students... for whatever reason.
-
- I'm afraid that I run my own classroom a lot like those Catholic school
- classrooms that I attended as a youth, except with a bit more flexibility
- since I have 2 grade levels (3rd and 4th).
-
- > I can only imagine what could be possible for us if all schools were
- > like Montessori or Summerhill. No, they are not perfect, but they are
- > so vastly superior... if only this were available to the great body
-
- "So vastly superior"... by what measures? I say this because one entire
- wing of the school I teach at is Montessori (not MY wing, obviously -- I
- teach in the Behavior Intervention Center wing, the exact opposite of
- Montessori :-). So I've had first-hand observation of Montessori in action.
- Those kids don't seem to be learning any more or less than what I learned
- when I was in school, and all the test scores we have seem to say the same:
- that it's no more or less effective than "standard" education at
- transmitting any measurable sort of knowledge. Now, Montessori advocates
- say there are other non-measurable advantages. Possibly so. But "vastly
- superior", well....
-
- --
- Eric Lee Green elg@elgamy.jpunix.com Dodson Elementary
- (713) 664-6446 Houston, TX
- "Kids are kids, no matter what"
-