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Seeking Districts: Private Education
A search for a neighborhood, the struggle to secure a home: a relocation was unexpected, had your family scrambling to pack away their belongings, prepare for an impractical journey. The move was hard...
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The Public Advantage: Meeting Special Needs
It is a quick dismissal, an assumption of dwindling standards: public education will no longer suffice. Your child instead demands attention, the assistance of qualified professionals. A disability has...
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The Enrollment Denials: Private Education Disadvantage
An application waits before you, a hope for the future. Its questions must be answered carefully; its deadline must be met. You are seeking to offer your child the chance he deserves, the education you...
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The Necessary Ratio: Private Education
It’s the familiar madness — a classroom is defined to too small corners and too many students, a teacher struggling to understand the endless questions that are flung toward her. She tries but her...
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The College Demands: Private Education Advantage
I’s an easy completion: your child hurries through his assignments, finishing them all without even a sigh. The pages are read; the questions are answered; and he tosses his books aside, eager to...
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The Barnette Principle
It was once an expectation of reverence: students were to stand, unified and humble, reciting a pledge to their flag. All individuals were to offer the necessary salutes, to express the common...
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What Is In A Law?
We don’t like to think about it, but our schools are not so much sacred institutions of learning as they are commercial enterprises. Like any commercial enterprise, our schools are governed by a...
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An Apple A Day And Other Rules
Colleges and schools need rules and regulations in order to function properly. In the United States there is no federal standard for these rules and regulations. Instead, schools are regulated at the...
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Student Rights
As American’s, we have certain inalienable rights. Freedom of speech, freedom of press and the right to not be discriminated against to name a few. The weird thing is, in the same country, our...
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Discrimination: Alive and Kicking or Dead and Gone
Discrimination is a dirty little secret, something that is illegal in our country. An institution or individual cannot refuse another services or deny them their rights based on their sex, race,...
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My School, It’s Better Than Yours
It is a debate that has been wages almost as long as schools have been in existence: which is better private or public schools? The truth is both have their benefits and their problems. Deciding which...
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Public Schools
Parents want the best for their children and this includes their education. For many parents this means a big decision: public or private school. Both forms of education have benefits as well as...
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Liberty, Freedom and Education
In our country we are ruled by laws and legislation. Part of what ensures our freedom and our liberty are these very same laws. A very big part of these laws surround our children. They are designed to...
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What Are We Really Teaching Them
Whether we like to admit it or not a big problem facing our students and schools today is discipline. Breaking rules or even just bending them must be adequately addressed. This is an enormous issue...
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Bringing Pride Back To Our Schools
Just who is responsible for caring for school property? It’s sort of depends on who you talk to. Some believe school property is entirely cared for by the janitorial staff, others believe the...
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Options for Students after High School
As little as 5 to 10 years ago, it was still possible to get a job, some of which paid rather well, without a college degree. However, this scenario is rapidly disappearing. Today, the expectation is...
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The Up and Down of Private Schools
Many parents are opting to send their children to private schools in an attempt to provide them with the best possible education. Private schools have many advantages over the traditional public...
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Seeing Through Violence
Violence has been growing in our schools. It isn’t just the number of incidents that is growing; it is the severity of those instances. School violence used to mean a fight in the playground or...
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Harassment Horrors
It is a sad fact that many of our students feel they are harassed in the classroom. From students who feel they are put down because of their race, religion, sexual orientation or gender to those who...
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Bullying: It Is No Laughing Matter
School bullying is an issue that many of our high school students are facing. In fact, students as young as elementary school have to deal with the growing problem in which a student or a group of...
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Title Match: Public Versus Private
As a parent you want the best for your child. As a student you are likely focusing less on education and more on home much fun high school will be. Deciding which educational format will work best for...
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Leave Nothing To Chance
Anyone entering high school is likely concerned about what is required in order to graduate. These requirements do vary from state to state and even from school district to school district, so this...
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Common Sense
We really need to stop to consider how rules impact our students. Having too few rules can lead to chaos – a poor learning environment indeed. Too many rules can restrict personal freedom and the...
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It Is A Trade Off
When you stop and think about it, schools have a ton of legal responsibilities. They are not just responsible to their students. In fact, schools are responsible to their students, to their teachers,...
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Anti-Discrimination: Put It In The Dictionary
Maybe one day we will live in a world where we do not have to worry about discrimination in our schools. Hopefully the day will come when we don’t have to worry about educating our children about how...
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It Is Everyone’s Responsibility
It should come as no surprise that our students are faced with discrimination. While many schools, teachers and administrators actively seek to end any practices that are discriminatory and to address...
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School Violence
School violence is an epidemic that has gained national attention in the last 20 years. The biggest event that drew much of the awareness was the event at Columbine High School. There were three...
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Private Schooling
Image via Wikipedia Private schools have been on the map for some time. They started out originally as boarding schools, and then quickly spread to include specific religious affiliations. The most...
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Keeping it Sharp
Have you ever looked down at your machete, and seen that its edge had gone dull in the midst of all your mad hacking and slashing? It doesn’t matter whether you prowl a lake looking for sinful...
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Legal Rights Of Schools
Schools have many legal rights, and because they are with students all day long, it is important that parents recognize the role that schools play, and the right that they have. This is especially true...
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Public Education
Public education was founded on deeply religious principles. In fact, the first text book was the Bible. This was during a very puritanical America, and many felt that all children should know the...
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Keeping it Sharp
Have you ever looked down at your machete, and seen that its edge had gone dull in the midst of all your mad hacking and slashing? It doesn’t matter whether you prowl a lake looking for sinful...
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School Property
School property is also the property of the tax payer. This means that the libraries, school grounds and buildings, and even the equipment is eligible to be used by the public. In fact, many elementary...
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Preparation for Student Loan Payment
Student loans can be a great tool for those attending college, since it can be very expensive when factoring in housing, books, tuition, and other living expenses. Since the interest rates are lower...
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Student Requirements
There are rules placed in schools that are intended to help students focus on schooling as well as developing healthy citizenship. This means that dress codes, codes of conduct, and rules of school...
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Is School Violence Ordinary?
Is school violence so ordinary that every day in every school instances of physical and psychological violence go unreported and unheeded? Unfortunately, the answer for most schools and most students...
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Montessori Schools and Methods
Montessori is both a teaching method and a type of private school. Some public schools have Montessori classrooms. The schools were started in 1907 by Dr. Maria Montessori. Maria Montessori...
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Melding Students and Technology
Students across the country are being exposed to a new form of learning in the form of online education. This new method of education includes not only classes taken from home, but also those taught in...
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Cell Phones–An Educational Tool?
For the last several years, as cell phones became an appendage to teenagers, teachers and educational administrators have struggled to keep cell phone use out of the classroom. The reasons were sound....
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Do You Know Your School Board?
Too often when we think about educational reform or educational policy changes we look to the school district administration or the legislature to bring about these changes. What we often overlook is...
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How to Find a Tutor?
Educational surveys show that individual tutoring sessions can help children who are struggling in one or more academic areas succeed. Students who have five or more sessions of one-hour tutoring...
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Waldorf Private Schools
Waldorf schools were developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1919. Steiner believed that the whole child should be educated: the heart, the mind, and the hand. The underlying goal of a Waldorf education is to...
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The Road to Being an Engineer
The road to being an engineer is a very long one, even for people as naturally bright and industrious as Canadians. Fortunately, the road is well trodden, as there are several great engineering schools...
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Benefits of Automatic Withdrawal
Image via Wikipedia Most likely, the bills you pay have an option to pay by check, credit or debit card, or have an automatic withdrawal. Many people choose not to do the automatic withdrawal, but...
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How to Protect Children from School Violence
School violence is becoming very common in many schools. Recent years, there has been dramatic increase in school violence and it is a must for everyone to protect their children from such incidents....
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Going Home for the Summer: Subletting or Subleasing?
Image via Wikipedia Many students put time and effort into finding the perfect apartment near their college campus and don’t like giving them up when they go home for the summer, but what else can...
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It’s Better to be Silent Than Violent
Image by BillRhodesPhoto via Flickr Violence can never be justified under any circumstances. There have been examples of wars being won without the use of force. Having said this, it is not an...
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Staying Away from School Violence
Image via Wikipedia Bullying and school violence are on the rampage nowadays. It seems you can’t turn on the news or read a newspaper without hearing a story about a child, or even an adult, involved...
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Choose The Best School For Your Child
Image via Wikipedia It’s essential that your child goes to the right school – a school that will motivate them to succeed, and give them ambitions and experience. Choosing a school does require plenty...
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The Private School Concern: Cost
Finance — you have discovered — is a fickle thing. Dollars come and go with alarming ease, never willing to settle into your bank accounts and collect the happy interest. Money is instead impermanent;...
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