What can be done to protect children from school shootings immediately?
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
@swirlie Our best employee ever was home schooled K-12 then breezed through college on the dean's list.
I worked in corporate education for a few years and classrooms were designed for 20 students in a semi-circle.
Our kids went to private schools K-12 and that was about the same ratio, except K-4 had 2 teachers per class for a 10-1 ratio. That 20 to 1 ratio prevents kids from sitting in the back of the class hiding, and makes it difficult for the teacher to ignore a struggling student. We once did health promos to call attention to a common disease. The 20-1 classes were engaging with questions from the students, while the 50-1classes were mostly about the teacher yelling at the kids to "knock it off."
There are wonderful religion sponsored schools in America that charge zero tuition and manage to send near 100% of their students off to college on scholarships.
The Christian virtues are faith, hope and charity, of which Charity trumps the other two.
I worked in corporate education for a few years and classrooms were designed for 20 students in a semi-circle.
Our kids went to private schools K-12 and that was about the same ratio, except K-4 had 2 teachers per class for a 10-1 ratio. That 20 to 1 ratio prevents kids from sitting in the back of the class hiding, and makes it difficult for the teacher to ignore a struggling student. We once did health promos to call attention to a common disease. The 20-1 classes were engaging with questions from the students, while the 50-1classes were mostly about the teacher yelling at the kids to "knock it off."
There are wonderful religion sponsored schools in America that charge zero tuition and manage to send near 100% of their students off to college on scholarships.
The Christian virtues are faith, hope and charity, of which Charity trumps the other two.
Notsimilarreally · 31-35, F
@Heartlander 50 to 1 almost seems pointless. Just a recipe for disaster.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Notsimilarreally Yes pointless. Beyond 20 kids in most classes with 10, 11, 12 ... year olds it becomes a drill sergeant exercise. Also the class layout. Sit students in columns and rows and the students are interacting with one another. Put them in a semi-circle and they are all face to face with the instructor.
@Heartlander
Yes, I agree with everything you've written here and thank you for responding to my post.
You have probably always wondered why I am so socially inclusive, well-behaved and come across with such an intelligent outlook toward most things that are discussed here on SW, right?
Well, I've been hiding it from you up until now, but I really think it's time to let the cat out of the bag. 🐱
I went to private school, K-13. Why 13 instead of 12 you ask? Because in the Canadian school system, grade 13 is optional which is called "University entrance". Grade 13 is the equivalent to the 1st year of university for a Bachelor of Arts Degree for example and the likelihood of being accepted by a Canadian university post high school is almost guaranteed for those who accept that grade 13 option, versus those who graduate from the standard pubic high school program which ends at grade 12.
The only subject my sisters and I were home-schooled for was sex education. This is because like the American sex ed curriculum, the Canadian sex ed curriculum is abysmal at best. Many reasons for this, the most glaringly obvious one being the foundational bias of British Colonial roots still firmly engrained within both countries which dramatically affects our society's social awareness of sex which then enshrines our future attitudes about sex.
My parents immigrated to Canada as newly-weds of pure Scandinavian stock, one from Norway, the other from Sweden. In Scandinavian countries, sex ed begins in grade 1, not in the second year of high school as is otherwise done in North America. Sex ed for me and my two sisters ran for a full 13 years in our home, which was conducted like clockwork every evening from 8 to 9pm for those 13 years I speak of. We began with how bees pollinate flowers and we ended with genetic outcomes from interracial intercourse, all of which was taught the same kitchen table for all those years.
How was this done? My mom taught my sisters and I from her own high school-issued 'sex manual' which she kept tucked away in storage until she had a family of her own. As each of my sisters and I turned 11 while in grade 6 of private school while coincidentally starting puberty at that same age for each of us, my mom's sex manual would come out onto the kitchen table and she taught my sisters and I everything she too was taught from that same manual in Scandinavia.
Private school was great for all the reasons you've outlined and I highly recommend it to those who can afford it, but it ain't cheap. But public education ain't cheep either because what you end up with at the end of the day is poorly educated high school graduates.
K-12/13 is either paid up front in the form of private school funding and paid for by the parents, or it's paid for the rest of that child's life because of what they did NOT learn when they were otherwise enrolled in the public school system, particularly when it comes to sex education.
Yes, I agree with everything you've written here and thank you for responding to my post.
You have probably always wondered why I am so socially inclusive, well-behaved and come across with such an intelligent outlook toward most things that are discussed here on SW, right?
Well, I've been hiding it from you up until now, but I really think it's time to let the cat out of the bag. 🐱
I went to private school, K-13. Why 13 instead of 12 you ask? Because in the Canadian school system, grade 13 is optional which is called "University entrance". Grade 13 is the equivalent to the 1st year of university for a Bachelor of Arts Degree for example and the likelihood of being accepted by a Canadian university post high school is almost guaranteed for those who accept that grade 13 option, versus those who graduate from the standard pubic high school program which ends at grade 12.
The only subject my sisters and I were home-schooled for was sex education. This is because like the American sex ed curriculum, the Canadian sex ed curriculum is abysmal at best. Many reasons for this, the most glaringly obvious one being the foundational bias of British Colonial roots still firmly engrained within both countries which dramatically affects our society's social awareness of sex which then enshrines our future attitudes about sex.
My parents immigrated to Canada as newly-weds of pure Scandinavian stock, one from Norway, the other from Sweden. In Scandinavian countries, sex ed begins in grade 1, not in the second year of high school as is otherwise done in North America. Sex ed for me and my two sisters ran for a full 13 years in our home, which was conducted like clockwork every evening from 8 to 9pm for those 13 years I speak of. We began with how bees pollinate flowers and we ended with genetic outcomes from interracial intercourse, all of which was taught the same kitchen table for all those years.
How was this done? My mom taught my sisters and I from her own high school-issued 'sex manual' which she kept tucked away in storage until she had a family of her own. As each of my sisters and I turned 11 while in grade 6 of private school while coincidentally starting puberty at that same age for each of us, my mom's sex manual would come out onto the kitchen table and she taught my sisters and I everything she too was taught from that same manual in Scandinavia.
Private school was great for all the reasons you've outlined and I highly recommend it to those who can afford it, but it ain't cheap. But public education ain't cheep either because what you end up with at the end of the day is poorly educated high school graduates.
K-12/13 is either paid up front in the form of private school funding and paid for by the parents, or it's paid for the rest of that child's life because of what they did NOT learn when they were otherwise enrolled in the public school system, particularly when it comes to sex education.