It is, of course, your job to make sure your kids land of their feet. This means you make sure they are competent in the basics needed to interact with society. These basics haven’t changed in the last few centuries (only the methods): we all know what our kids need to learn as they grow up….. or do we?
Schooling claims at least 12 years of your child’s life, and what does he come away with? Really?
“Modern schools” stress social molding more than academic competence and fail at both. (A child stuck in screens will be hard to teach, and a child who cannot keep up with his class will develop “weird” behaviors).
The idea that education is a matter of “data” made Google a teacher and turned our children into little flash drives (8 for $32 at Office Depot). What happened to independently thinking men and women?
Knowledge is crystallized thought. It’s the result of a process of weighing. It’s a “oooooh” moment that comes with a smile, and total certainty. It makes it possible to act on that new understanding.
You do want your children to eventually act, produce, create and exchange.
Are they actually being prepared for that?
Can your 5-year old read?
Can your 6-year old print correctly?
Can your 12-year old figure a 15% tip in his head? Can he write a
letter? Address an envelope? Can he fill out his application for a
membership at the YMCA, or will he hand it to you, Mom?
Can your 16-year old fill out an application for a summer job? He can
probably compose a symphony on his iPhone, but can he make a
spreadsheet? Does he find reading the classics a struggle or even torture?
If you have been relying on symbols like A, B- and C+, if you have stayed at a safe distance from your child’s education trusting the school to get the job done – reach in now! Check the above points, and at the first “no”; call me.
I have answers, short programs, grammar camps, summer math boosts, quick fixes, one-year programs, college prep tutoring….whatever he needs to restore his confidence and WIN again! (And if I can’t deliver what’s needed, I can refer.)
(760) 954-9197
Call soon and reserve his/her spot.
Love, Joke