[stylist] Public and private schools

[helene ryles]

The size of the school is good for accademic progress but not aways
good for social progress. My parents chose a high school for me in a
rural setting which was fairly small called Madely high. Accademically
it was very good. Socially, it wasn't due to the fact that I was the
only deaf person there and some of the other kids resented my
presence. In a small school if a popular kid decides they don't like
you for whatever reason you've had it.  I eventually had to leave the
school because of the degree of bullying I suffered from. Also rural
kids can be quite cruel.

I next went to a larger innercity school that had a partial hearing
unit(PHU). As well as a large asian community. The fact that I am HOH,
half french and mother was not working did not matter to them so much
as it did at my previous school as I was just one of many. So socially
speaking I made many more friends but my accademic progress took a
nose dive due to the differance in teaching methods. At Madely High I
they used to write thing on the blackboard for me. At Trent Valley
they just spoke and you were supposed to take notes which was quite
impossible for me due to my hearing loss and needing to lip read. The
PHU just said I should learn to listen more. They weren't much use.
But I did make more friends there.

Helene.

On 06/01/2009, Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com> wrote:
> 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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