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<blockquote data-quote="allhaileris" data-source="post: 543480" data-attributes="member: 5663"><p>As for their mental state, pull the kids out if they're suffering. I am wondering if your question about English schools vs Afrikaans schools is mostly about language, education level, or that they'll get lost in the size of the Afrikaans schools. How many kids are in a class in the other school?</p><p></p><p>I pulled my daughter out of one school here, one that had and English-Spanish language issue. It used to be an alternative school, then they cut the program and most of the native English speakers left, and probably 90% of the kids were Latino. We have this unspoken segregation here, it's horrible. The Spanish speaking kids were picking on my daughter because she didn't speak Spanish, which wasn't the main reason we pulled her, but one of them. I'm guessing your kids will fit right into the new school since you speak Afrikaans at home. </p><p></p><p>In the new school, would your kids get any kind of personalized education plan that comes with aides to help them one on one with their work? Here in the US we call it an IEP. It FORCES the school to provide our kids with what they need to be able to have the same educational opportunities their peers have. And our schools have class size of about 25-30 (at least here in California), and it gets bigger as they get older, they were trying to keep it at 20 in K-3 (K is Kindergarden, I assume that's 00 there). Without the IEP my daughter gets lost in a class of 20, unless she has a decent teacher and her IEP help. </p><p></p><p>And why isn't there a govt school closer than 20-30 min?</p><p></p><p>Screaming and threatening a child would get a teacher fired here. I can't believe they would do that there and get away with it. Who cares about the facilities, as long as your child is learning and happy. They can go to school in the ghetto and still get a decent education if there are dedicated teachers and parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="allhaileris, post: 543480, member: 5663"] As for their mental state, pull the kids out if they're suffering. I am wondering if your question about English schools vs Afrikaans schools is mostly about language, education level, or that they'll get lost in the size of the Afrikaans schools. How many kids are in a class in the other school? I pulled my daughter out of one school here, one that had and English-Spanish language issue. It used to be an alternative school, then they cut the program and most of the native English speakers left, and probably 90% of the kids were Latino. We have this unspoken segregation here, it's horrible. The Spanish speaking kids were picking on my daughter because she didn't speak Spanish, which wasn't the main reason we pulled her, but one of them. I'm guessing your kids will fit right into the new school since you speak Afrikaans at home. In the new school, would your kids get any kind of personalized education plan that comes with aides to help them one on one with their work? Here in the US we call it an IEP. It FORCES the school to provide our kids with what they need to be able to have the same educational opportunities their peers have. And our schools have class size of about 25-30 (at least here in California), and it gets bigger as they get older, they were trying to keep it at 20 in K-3 (K is Kindergarden, I assume that's 00 there). Without the IEP my daughter gets lost in a class of 20, unless she has a decent teacher and her IEP help. And why isn't there a govt school closer than 20-30 min? Screaming and threatening a child would get a teacher fired here. I can't believe they would do that there and get away with it. Who cares about the facilities, as long as your child is learning and happy. They can go to school in the ghetto and still get a decent education if there are dedicated teachers and parents. [/QUOTE]
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