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Best age for starting primary school
Many of the benefits to allowing your son to start school at 5 years old will be realised in high school. I believe it is Denmark that doesn't allow children to start school until they're 7 and the d…
Replied Jun 13
Voluntary School Fees in a Public School
As a taxpayer, parent, teacher and voter I can worry about whatever the hell I want. The truth is that people who refuse to pay school fees are carried by those who do. As a parent I know I'm carryi…
Replied May 17
Voluntary School Fees in a Public School
Hear hear Sean. Bottom line: No we're not heavily taxed. While we're at it, our education system is amongst the best in the world, so are our teachers. Australia is the envy of the World because we'…
Replied May 17
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Dropping the kids off at our school is a traffic nightmare... if you're doing it by car. On the bike it's a breeze. Our suburb has lots of bike trails and two major trails intersect at the school's rear entrance. The school has a strong bike culture…
Many of the benefits to allowing your son to start school at 5 years old will be realised in high school. I believe it is Denmark that doesn't allow children to start school until they're 7 and the data shows that they perform much better later in t…
Hear hear.
As a taxpayer, parent, teacher and voter I can worry about whatever the hell I want.
The truth is that people who refuse to pay school fees are carried by those who do. As a parent I know I'm carrying quite a few. Am I also carrying your burden Jul…
Hear hear Sean.
Bottom line: No we're not heavily taxed. While we're at it, our education system is amongst the best in the world, so are our teachers.
Australia is the envy of the World because we're doing things right.
Stop moaning people, pay yo…
Elizabeth, I think you're being waaaaaay too pompous about the way many parents get confused with school jargon. Parents are not idiots. They are very busy people. They're faced with new interpretations of something everyday whether at work or at ho…
Our parents were completely flummoxed at our homework too. It's all part of the changing language of the brave new world that our kids are creating. My parents are still bewildered by computers, my children astound me with their understanding of mul…
I read your discussion with both sadness and horror. At the time of writing I imagine that the relationship between yourselves and your daughter had broken down completely. When you "showed her the door" did that mean you were kicking her out? If th…
Whilst I appreciate your concerns in this area there are some assertions that need correction.
All States have laws designed to protect children. Grounding a child or sending them to their room is fine as a form of lawful chastisement. Locking them…
One very important thing to consider is not how they will perform in primary school as a one of the youngest but how they'll go on to perform as one of the youngest in their high school peer group. The pecking order amongst kids is usually determine…
Hi Renee, my advice has always been that later is better. One of the things to consider is the child's age when he reaches HIgh School. In his final years he'll be the youngest in a group of influential older peers. In my experience sending the chil…
I am a mum and I totally support and agree with what you say. Both boys and girls benefit enormously from having a male teacher. As a female, all my favourite teachers were men. I responded well to their relaxed manner of teaching and their strong g…
My (almost) 4 year old uses the iSight webcam on the apple macbook to make youtube style consumer reviews of his Transformers toys through the iMovie application. We use the real youtube transformers reviews to work out how to change them from robot…
So how's it working for us, this 'your education is its own reward' thing? Not too well from where I sit.
Our parents were beaten unmercifully by brutal teachers for not doing homework, talking in class, being late. Indeed my brothers suffered at t…
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- At 7:22am on May 27, 2010,
kahlee christiansen said…
- panads r a type of bear in china they r black and white...... do u have the pic now
- At 6:06pm on January 30, 2010,
karenleeanne said… - Hi Katrina
Please take a look at the new group - Parents, Teachers, Community for significant positive change to the education system.
Your ideas and insight would be appreciated.
Cheers
Karen
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