[stylist] Public and private schools

[Angela fowler]

Educators and their silly classifications! Yes, the big public schools
micromanage people, its one of the major problems with education today.
People are categorized, not looked at again, and the needs of the individual
are rarely met. I guess I was just saying that the size of the school is an
important factor. 
I don't even know what rote multiplication is! 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:28 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] Public and private schools

you must not be from New York.
The private school I went to was in Baltimore.   After we moved to New York
I 
was shifted to public school because no scholarships were available for the 
private schools there.   Our public school class had between thirty and
thirty 
five students.   It was the opinion of the teacher and other students that i

was retarded until my intelligence tests came back.   I was a bit confused,
and 
not at the same place mathematically (the public school had learned rote
multiplication, and I had not.), and a year younger than my classmates
because I 
skipped a half year of kindergarten, but not retarded.   I was accused by 
fellow students of cheating on the intelligence tests, which was ridiculous,
since if my grade was higher than theirs, I definitely hadn't been copying
their papers.
School was not much fun for me.   I am largely self educated, despite my BA 
and various grad credits.
Lori

In a message dated 1/5/09 2:57:22 PM, fowlers at syix.com writes:


> I went to a small public high school. There was plenty of time for 
> one-on interaction with teachers because teacher-student ratio was
relatively low.
> 
> 




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