{"id":2096,"date":"2007-10-24T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/schools-take-two\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T04:07:00","slug":"schools-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/schools-take-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools, take two."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some reflections on a recent conversation with a Very Trusted Professor, Mother, and Parent (with experience in private, charter, and public schools in NOLA):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I could afford it, I&#8217;d put all of my children in private school.   It&#8217;s not the academics (although I do think they are just a little better in private, they are really comparable with the best public charters) &#8212; it is the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">personal attention<\/span>.   In public schools, your child is a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">number<\/span>.  If there is a problem, you hear about it on the report card.   Not before.  There is no specialized attention, nurturing, or shaping the learning towards your child&#8217;s needs and interests.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This really made Paul and I stop and think.  Because even though we went to some of the country&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcps.edu\/about\/schoolranking.htm\">very best public schools<\/a>, we agreed that we were numbers within them.  Private schools offer half of the class size as public schools.  She had a real point that is turning us on our heads.  We are back into not having any idea what to do with our children.  Are we looking at a life of sacrifice to pay for the best schools we can afford?  Is this what we should do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some reflections on a recent conversation with a Very Trusted Professor, Mother, and Parent (with experience in private, charter, and public schools in NOLA): &#8220;If I could afford it, I&#8217;d put all of my children in private school. It&#8217;s not the academics (although I do think they are just a little better in private, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}