Great story! I could actually visualize it because we lived near Walden Pond for a few years and enjoyed swimming, paddle-boarding and walking the trail around it.
100% agree with the rest of your comment, as well. My husband and I run a microschool that offers a completely different learning model than the public system, where we provide…
Great story! I could actually visualize it because we lived near Walden Pond for a few years and enjoyed swimming, paddle-boarding and walking the trail around it.
100% agree with the rest of your comment, as well. My husband and I run a microschool that offers a completely different learning model than the public system, where we provide an environment of (among many other things) minimal adult interaction, allowing the learners to fail often, cheaply and safely, which helps foster their resilience. It's amazing how capable kids are when adults DON'T interfere!
I hope you are not here in Illinois. The legislature recently passed a bill monitoring home schooling (and may even apply to all not public schools, not sure). If the education achieved is not up to the State expectations, you might be investigated by child welfare. Which is so rich when one considers public school achievement in this state.
I think the mass exodus from public schools, due especially to the horrid covid and DEI policies, has the government in a panic. So, they're going after the low-hanging fruit, which are home schools. Here in Virginia we have a legislator who's trying to pull the same nonsense as Illinois. I wrote my state assemblyman about it, and he agrees it's nonsense and assured me he'd vote no if her bill made it to the assembly floor. Because it targets only home schools, our private school wouldn't be affected. But we also have a Republican governor who I'm fairly certain would veto it anyway.
Fight on. This is driven by the teachers’ unions here, which coincidentally just recently released a “bipartisan poll” conducted by the —- teachers’ unions, and you know what? Poll says the people of Illinois think IL education is doing a good job AND/BUT needs more funding. Some sort of wonderful.
If you're asking what microschools are, then a simple browser search. If you're asking about their learning models, it varies greatly depending on the individual schools themselves. Ours is based on the Acton Academy learning model (easily searchable), as well as the Montessori model for our youngest learners.
Great story! I could actually visualize it because we lived near Walden Pond for a few years and enjoyed swimming, paddle-boarding and walking the trail around it.
100% agree with the rest of your comment, as well. My husband and I run a microschool that offers a completely different learning model than the public system, where we provide an environment of (among many other things) minimal adult interaction, allowing the learners to fail often, cheaply and safely, which helps foster their resilience. It's amazing how capable kids are when adults DON'T interfere!
I hope you are not here in Illinois. The legislature recently passed a bill monitoring home schooling (and may even apply to all not public schools, not sure). If the education achieved is not up to the State expectations, you might be investigated by child welfare. Which is so rich when one considers public school achievement in this state.
I think the mass exodus from public schools, due especially to the horrid covid and DEI policies, has the government in a panic. So, they're going after the low-hanging fruit, which are home schools. Here in Virginia we have a legislator who's trying to pull the same nonsense as Illinois. I wrote my state assemblyman about it, and he agrees it's nonsense and assured me he'd vote no if her bill made it to the assembly floor. Because it targets only home schools, our private school wouldn't be affected. But we also have a Republican governor who I'm fairly certain would veto it anyway.
Fight on. This is driven by the teachers’ unions here, which coincidentally just recently released a “bipartisan poll” conducted by the —- teachers’ unions, and you know what? Poll says the people of Illinois think IL education is doing a good job AND/BUT needs more funding. Some sort of wonderful.
Where would I find some information on the microschool concept??
If you're asking what microschools are, then a simple browser search. If you're asking about their learning models, it varies greatly depending on the individual schools themselves. Ours is based on the Acton Academy learning model (easily searchable), as well as the Montessori model for our youngest learners.