Jewel
New School Prayer
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I appreciate your post Don57. I realize from some of your past posts that you follow christian standards. I must say I admire your honesty. You are able to see the picture for what it is and be honest enough about your thoughts to share it. I agree with your opinion and respect you for putting it out there.
Jewel
Jewel
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Hey Don, I enjoyed reading your post. I too am old enough to remember some of the violence and prejudice of the past.
My son goes to public school because he was turned away by the Christian school of my choice. They thought he was too dumb to bother with because he's autistic. They refused to even give him religious instruction and suggested that I teach him myself at home. It's worked out for the best even though it's not what I originally had in mind. The kid does excellent in public school, much better than he would have in a school that didn't think he had any brains and treated him as such. Now my son is in an advanced learning program, gets some of the best grades in his class, and his teachers are always looking for ways to challenge him. His classmates are regular, average kids, no other autistic students. Yesterday he sat in with the 6th grade (he's 4th grade) because there was a speaker on world economics and my son tested better than most 6th graders in that subject. The school is wondering if they can challenge him in this class or if he's outsmarted everyone and they need to bring in some high school material for him. That's what the teacher told me yesterday. Yes, I'm proud.
Children can excel in public school if that's where they are accepted and nourished and encouraged. Just trying to get you all to look beyond the skewed statistics. Behind each one of those numbers is a real, living, breathing child. An individual.
My son goes to public school because he was turned away by the Christian school of my choice. They thought he was too dumb to bother with because he's autistic. They refused to even give him religious instruction and suggested that I teach him myself at home. It's worked out for the best even though it's not what I originally had in mind. The kid does excellent in public school, much better than he would have in a school that didn't think he had any brains and treated him as such. Now my son is in an advanced learning program, gets some of the best grades in his class, and his teachers are always looking for ways to challenge him. His classmates are regular, average kids, no other autistic students. Yesterday he sat in with the 6th grade (he's 4th grade) because there was a speaker on world economics and my son tested better than most 6th graders in that subject. The school is wondering if they can challenge him in this class or if he's outsmarted everyone and they need to bring in some high school material for him. That's what the teacher told me yesterday. Yes, I'm proud.
Children can excel in public school if that's where they are accepted and nourished and encouraged. Just trying to get you all to look beyond the skewed statistics. Behind each one of those numbers is a real, living, breathing child. An individual.