Private School - Edison ? Any Experience ?

[Masked Bandit]

Originally posted by Cos


Interesting study came out so I wanted to share. This backs up another story about schools in Detroit, that it isnt the schools that are better it is the kids who go there. If you want more for your child chances are you're going to nurture them and teach them more at home too.




http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/privat...016123?cmp=rss

In other news, water is STILL wet.

lol

That's not an attack on you Cos, it just seems pretty common sense. I hate when media takes something obvious like this and all of a sudden it's "news". Who paid for a study on this when the outcome was already known by most reasonable people?

I still think private school provides long term advantages to the students though just because of the childhood friendships formed. When the guy you went to grade school with is the CEO of Enmax 25 years later, it's probably easier for you to get in / move up the ladder yourself.

[Cos]

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[SkiBum5.0]

This may have been mentioned but the whole "smaller class size" argument suffers from the law of diminished returns. If anyone has read Malcom Gladwell's books (I think it is Blink or David versis Goliath) he studies this in depth. Any class size below 20-24 actually hurts a child's development because they aren't exposed to differing opinions. If the size is too small, you will have too large a group of "agree'ers."

He also says that anything above 28 will have the reverse effect where there are too many views, and it cannot be controlled.

Just some food for thought.

[sputnik]

In Manitoba public school class sizes are being capped at 20 kids starting in 2016, however even now the class sizes are kept small so that they don't have to do too much work moving kids around when the cap is officially in place.

[Cos]

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[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by sputnik
In Manitoba public school class sizes are being capped at 20 kids starting in 2016, however even now the class sizes are kept small so that they don't have to do too much work moving kids around when the cap is officially in place.

That's a great idea. When I read this...

Originally posted by cycosis
small class sizes (25-30 tops)

I had to look twice. I didn't go to school here in Calgary, but back home I think the most kids I ever had in class (public), was like 23.

[sputnik]

Originally posted by Cos


Holy hell, my wife has 45 (23 morning and 22 afternoon) for kindergarten. 20 would be so much more manageable with field trips, report cards, any kids with IPP's, etc.

My son's kindergarten class is 18 and there is only a morning class because his school is only one class per grade.

So he will probably have the same classmates from K-6 aside from the kids who move away or new kids that come in and top the class at 20.

[ExtraSlow]

Inner city, fuck yeah.

[sheik_yerbouti]

Originally posted by sputnik


My son's kindergarten class is 18 and there is only a morning class because his school is only one class per grade.

So he will probably have the same classmates from K-6 aside from the kids who move away or new kids that come in and top the class at 20.

This is what's awesome about older schools in older neighbourhoods. The Catholic ones are even crazier where the same kids go to school together from K-9 in a small school.