School

im in 7th grade. I got home schooled this year because I got behind last year alot because I got into private school. So what am I going to have to do to git back into public school will I have to take a science fcat or just Math and English ?

Take your homeschool report card,if you have one,or some of your work.Your parents will have to go to the school with these papers and enroll you and poof you are in public school again.although i cant understand why you would want to go back to schoolif you are truly being homeschooled.We love it here.
Good luck
marietta

I have to write a comparative/contrast essay on homeschool vs. public school. I was just wondering if I could get some imput on the subject. I have a friend who homeschools her children and so I got a statement from her, but of course, she is pro-homeschool. I have several differences. How are they alike?

they’re not much alike.The home school child misses out on so much.
Like socialisation with peers. Learning how social relationships work in the everyday world. Learning to get along with a variety of people – even those you don’t like.
Exposure to different teaching and learning styles. Exposure to different personality and behavioural types.
Life in the wider world.

They just miss out on so much.

I can see for some children home school is the only option. But these cases are rare. Home-schooled children are missing out on so many experiences – in my opinion.

My seventh grader is at public school for the first time due to our move, our new area offers no Catholic schools. He is pretty distressed over the lack of discipline, he couldnt hear announcements, and is afraid of being beaten up and having things taken. We did not predispose him to this, we were super upbeat about this (no choice) The school is gorgeous but the discipline isn’t what he is used to. HELP!

First of all, I have been in public schools all my life. Never once have I been beaten up or had things taken from me. From what I do know, Catholic schools are usually very strict when it comes to the children’s behavior. Of course it’s going to be different. But, this will be a learning experience for both you and him. And if it doesn’t work out, you could always try home schooling.

I know that in order to start applying for the F-1 visa, i would need to be accepted into a school, but what if I am planning to go to a public school? How would I get the public school F-1 Visa?
Once I get it, all I need is to sign up for the district high school my guardian is located in?
Also, after I get it, can I renew it after 12 months?

Phil,

There is only one type of F-1 visa.

It makes no difference if you are accepted to a private or public school. Both institutions will issue you with the Form I-20 and once you have this you would apply for the F-1 visa from the embassy in your home country.

I am not familiar with the procedures or the requirement to sign up for ‘the district high school’ nor do I really understand this part of your question. Perhaps someone else can clarify this for you, as it is 4:30am here.

If your third question is regarding can you renew your F-1 visa after 12 months when attending a public high school. Then the answer is no, students who attend public high schools in the U.S. are limited to twelve months of study.

Edit:

Carrying on from my last paragraph.

If you are attending a private or public university (not high school), then when you enter the United States on a student (F-1) visa, you will usually be admitted for the duration of your student status (often abbreviated in your passport or on your I-94 card as "D/S"). That means you may stay as long as you are a full time student, even if the F-1 visa in your passport expires while you are in America.

If you were not admitted for the duration of your student status and want to renew your F-1 visa you will need to provide:

- A passport valid for at least six months
- Form DS-156, together with a Form DS-158. Some applicants will also be required to complete and sign Form DS-157. Blank forms are available without charge at all U.S. consular offices and on the Visa Services website under Visa Applications Forms
- A receipt for visa processing fee.
- A new I-20 or an I-20 that has been endorsed on the back by a school official within the past 12 months, stating your new length of studies.

If you need any further guidance then feel free to contact me directly.

What ideas do you have to improve our public schools, from pre-K through high school? I’d like to hear from parents, teachers, and students alike. What things do you like about the public schools and what should we change?

First of all, thanks for asking the important question. I read the responses, and I mostly agree with cold fearrr’s answer. I am an elementary teacher in Western NY by the way. Definitely more exercise and movement is needed. RECESS! I disagree with departmentalizing kids into career paths in 8th grade. More than 50% of college students change their major within the four years they take to get a Bachelor’s degree. What makes us think an 8th grader is sure what they want to or should do with their life? I do think that we need to stop obsessing over Math and Literacy in the elementary grades. Don’t get me wrong, I obviously see their importance, but many students aren’t getting their first social studies lesson until third grade! The teachers aren’t given any creativity anymore. We are forced to teach programs that have regimented lessons each day with scripts. This makes school repetitive and unenjoyable for students and teachers. State testing is out of control. Either federally mandate something so we are all on the same page and can gather some real data, or let communities come up with their own programs! I love that some elementary schools are making guidance a required special for all students. I worked in a school where full classes met with a guidance teacher that helped them deal with sibling and family issues, friend problems, and school troubles. They need more music and more art. The U.S. should be doing massive amounts of research on education programs that work abroad. England has a decent program, as does Sweden. LOOK AROUND!

Im 14 and homeschooledand want to go to public school and want to know what is good and bad about both being homeschooled and going to public school…I know one positive thing about Public, you get to be with your friends!!!

Why can’t you spend time with friends and home school? My kids get their school done by lunch usually which frees them up to spend time with friends or do activities they are interested in. They would never have as much time to socialize if they where in public school.

Pros for us are:

Learn at their own rate, usually far ahead if than if they where in school.

Safe and peaceful environment, no bullies or "drama" to distract them from being themselves.

Far more free time, no time wasted dealing with discipline issues, lining up to go places, taking role, ect.

Exposed to real life and a variety of people, not just grouped in a same aged group and being told what to do and when to do it.

The ability to take time off when we choose to.

The ability to participate in extracurricular activities (some WITH the local public schools btw) and volunteering opportunities they wouldn’t have time for otherwise.

I could go on, but I think I got the big ones.

Pros for Public school:
Hummmm….
would be easier I suppose for the parent, no having to plan ect, BUT the trade off is simply not worth it for me.

We pay massive amounts of money into the public school system. However, in doing some reading last year, it came to my attention that there is a huge gap between what various groups think education is for. What do you think education should achieve?

I’m posting this in Politics because I think this is a political question as well as a philosophical one.

Education should help put all americans on an equal footing. It should teach young people the lessons of the past and teach the basics of science, math and communication.

I am thirteen and in year eight. All my life i’ve been home-schooled, but just recently, my dad decided to put me and my brother into a public school. He says we need to socialize properly.

There is One more week of the holidays. What’s it like(Public high school)? Is the work hard? I love being home-schooled, but i think that my dad is right – me and my brother need to socialize. I’ve never really been around other kids though. I have, but not in a schooling situation.

Basically, my brother and i were just wondering what it’s like. My dad told me that sometimes kids get bullied? He also said that some kids get into physical fights… Is this true?

I am sorry that you have to go of to public school, I don’t know your situation, but you have to honor your parents no matter what.
It really depends on the school as far as what you experience. I am sure there will be some kids that are ignorant but hopefully as many that will be friendly. Just focus on the positive and don’t try to impress anyone. Be yourself! If you want to "wear a skirt to your ankles" you should BTW. Don’t change who you are to to fit in to any crowd.
There are resources on the web you could look up and present to your parents about the myths and studies done on socialization and how Home Schooled students actually excel. You could present that to them respectfully, but the bottom line is you must do what they say.

Edit:
I have been busy today, but I did remember this report I read you may be interested in:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_ekoko/20061002.html

Otherwise, just do a search using "Home Schooling and socialization" It addresses a lot of the Myths scientifically. Make sure you are involved in sports, clubs and civic activities and assure your father you will continue to be.
OH, I have no idea whether "Prof Black (or whatever his name is) is for real, but if he is he is obviously bitter or ill educated in the Home Schooling topic. It doesn’t take a professor to do a little research. The few kids he MAY (if that’s even true) be basing his opinions on are not enough to prove something.
Good Luck

In high schools there are school-wide assemblies to celebrate "gay" marriage, featuring speakers, including principals teachers at the schools themselves, who have "married" their "gay" partners and are starting families either through adoption, in the case of males, or artificial insemination, in the case of lesbians.

In middle schools, teachers discuss gay sex with their students as explicitly as they desire.

In elementary schools, kindergartners are given picture-books telling them that "gay spouses" are just another kind of family, like their own parents. When a parent of a kindergartner strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.

Federal judges have ruled that because "gay" marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the schools actually have a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or to let them opt out their children.

Literature in favor of "gay" marriage, how it is now a normal part of society, is routinely handed out to students. School libraries across the state, from elementary school through high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and its lifestyle in the minds of children, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents’ complaints are ignored or met with hostility.

It has become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for principals and teachers to display prominently photographs of their "gay spouses" and bring those "spouses" to school functions.

Gay Days are considered necessary in schools to fight "intolerance" and "homophobia." High schools and even middle schools across the state now hold GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) Appreciation Days. They celebrate homosexual "marriage" and move forward to other behaviors such transvestism and transsexuality.

The Massachusetts legislature now gives tax monies to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups, in 2008 received close to a million dollars to target children in the public schools.
Homosexual "marriage" now hangs over our state like a hammer with the force of law. And it has only just begun. It is pretty clear that the homosexual movement’s obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of "gays" actually want to marry each other. Rather, this is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise.

None -

Watch these videos:

http://www.protectmarriage.com/video/view/6 (Make sure to watch it all)
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1815820715?bctid=1822459319
http://massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html

I’ve been going to a private school since last year and I’ve found that most kids are a bunch of rich assholes and don’t appreciate jack $hit. However I’ve never been to a public highschool, so is there a big difference and if I changed schools would I like public highschool better than private? Because most of the kids at private are a bunch of spoiled fake rich kids.

lol i went to private school for like 6 or 7 years, but we were all pretty down to earth i guess it depends on what school you go to. I go to public school now but i’ve found out that the people that i go to school now are alot more snottier and conceited than at my old school, but i’ve some cool people too
things are way diff. at pub school, for 1 everything is better, 2 the bathrooms are literally crap, 3 the food is crap, 4 since the classes are so big you have to wait until the teach FINALLY gets to you

THe good things are 1, MORE FREEDOM, you don’t always have someone breathing down your neck ’cause there are so many kids, 2 you’ll meet some cool people once you get through all the crappy posers 3, you’ll have more fun ’cause every thing’s not so orderly(is that a word?) 4, the classes are SO easy after being in private school

hope i’ve helped a little