Other: Are Public Schools A Menace To Your Kids? -- 11 Danger Signals

Are Public Schools A Menace To Your Kids? -- 11 Danger Signals

Written by Joel Turtel

Parents, do you have children who do poorly in school, or are bored or frustrated with their classes or teachers? In contrast to what most public-school officials will tell you, in most cases repparttar

problem lies with repparttar 144064

schools, not with your children.

It turns out that millions of children, including yours, have good reasons to hate public school, reasons that you as a parent should not ignore.

Here are eleven danger signals from your children that parents should watch out for:

1. Is your child’s writing and spelling atrocious, yet repparttar 144065 teacher gives your child high grades or compliments for “creative” spelling?

2. Is your child constantly bored or frustrated with school?

3. Does your child have difficulty doing simple arithmetic problems that he should be able to handle at that grade level?

4. Has your child stopped reading for pleasure at home?

5. Do your children hate doing homework because they say it bores them?

6. Does your child's teacher or principal tell you that your bright, energetic child has some strange four-lettered disease called ADHD, and they "suggest" you give your child mind-altering drugs to "fix" his or her "learning disorder?"

Busy, Working Parents --- 22 Ways To Homeschool Your Kids

Written by Joel Turtel

If you’re a single parent or a married couple on a tight budget so that both parents have to work, you may worry about finding repparttar

time and energy to homeschool your children, but it can be done. It comes down to planning and scheduling your time.

Most home-schooling parents teach their children about two to four hours a day and turn out well-educated kids. So repparttar 144063 problem is how to squeeze in about ten to twenty hours a week for home-schooling. Here are some suggestions:

1. Can you change your work schedule so that you can work in repparttar 144064 afternoon or at night and teach your children in repparttar 144065 morning?

2. Can you work part time, leaving yourself time for home-schooling?

3. Can you find a job in your local neighborhood so that you don’t waste one to three hours commut-ing every day?

4. Can you work from home? Computers, repparttar 144066 Internet, fax machines, and e-mail all make working from home relatively easy. Thousands of companies now offer this option to their workers. You could of-fer to work for slightly less money if your boss resists this arrangement.

Cont'd on page 2 ==>