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Do you feel a large or small school is better for a fairly normal child? (Long)
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 208735" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">My feeling is that no matter where you send her to school, at her age and in that grade level, you would have to have your eyes wide open for possible drug use or falling in with the wrong crowd of kids anyway.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">I think all the reasons to send her there are valid and make sense and if you don't mind providing transportation, then I would give it a try. I'm guessing that if, say, halfway through the year things aren't going as planned, you can always send her back to the other school?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">The first thing I would do is contact the smaller school, however, and speak with someone in the guidance office to find out what services <em><strong>are </strong></em>available - do all teachers offer extra help during the day or afterschool, etc? I would also speak with easy child about advocating for herself in that regard. If she feels herself slipping or not understanding something in class, will she ask for the help or will she wait until she is too far behind and then struggle the rest of the quarter? That kind of stuff.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Secondly, if you can, speak with other parents whose kids go to that school now and hear what they have to say.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Drugs are everywhere and there is no guarantee that whichever school she attends, she won't try them at some point - hopefully not. I think if she's involved with positive people and activities, chances are slim that she will get into that sort of thing. However, the kids in our town are VERY involved in sports - all sorts of sports - and they are the biggest offenders of drug and alcohol use here. We're a small town and very little in the way of 'fun' activities for the kids to involve themselves with outside of school and sports. I can't tell you how many kids have wrapped themselves around a tree due to alcohol and drug use here. Sports are not a guarantee that kids won't use or try drugs/alcohol. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #483d8b">Good luck~</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 208735, member: 2211"] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]My feeling is that no matter where you send her to school, at her age and in that grade level, you would have to have your eyes wide open for possible drug use or falling in with the wrong crowd of kids anyway.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]I think all the reasons to send her there are valid and make sense and if you don't mind providing transportation, then I would give it a try. I'm guessing that if, say, halfway through the year things aren't going as planned, you can always send her back to the other school?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]The first thing I would do is contact the smaller school, however, and speak with someone in the guidance office to find out what services [I][B]are [/B][/I]available - do all teachers offer extra help during the day or afterschool, etc? I would also speak with easy child about advocating for herself in that regard. If she feels herself slipping or not understanding something in class, will she ask for the help or will she wait until she is too far behind and then struggle the rest of the quarter? That kind of stuff.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Secondly, if you can, speak with other parents whose kids go to that school now and hear what they have to say.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Drugs are everywhere and there is no guarantee that whichever school she attends, she won't try them at some point - hopefully not. I think if she's involved with positive people and activities, chances are slim that she will get into that sort of thing. However, the kids in our town are VERY involved in sports - all sorts of sports - and they are the biggest offenders of drug and alcohol use here. We're a small town and very little in the way of 'fun' activities for the kids to involve themselves with outside of school and sports. I can't tell you how many kids have wrapped themselves around a tree due to alcohol and drug use here. Sports are not a guarantee that kids won't use or try drugs/alcohol. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=#483d8b][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=#483d8b]Good luck~[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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