Is Default School Choice Failing Kids?
At the beginning of each school year, choosing the right clothing and school supplies becomes a top agenda for parents. These same parents often go with a default school choice, which means that "by default" they simply send their children to the nearby local school without really making a school choice. Is default school choice failing kids?In addition to parents who are unaware of choice in education, others may know about choice but perceive that they lack funding for private school tuition, or for transportation to a more distant school. This is still a default choice, if parents fail to realize that choice in education may increase school success in kids. As a parent who once utilized school choice for her own children within the public school system and who now utilizes school choice to home school all of her children, I feel qualified to explore this subject.
What is School Choice?
School choice in simple terms is the option that parents have to make a choice in education options for their kids. This could refer to vouchers being given to public school children to attend more competent private schools in the area. It could also mean sending a child to a public school outside of the neighborhood due to incompatible opportunities at the neighborhood school.
For some, it may simply mean making the choice between public, private, and home school. There are many ways school choice is exercised, but all have the same goal: a better education for our children. Should there be a default school choice?
Is Default School Choice Failing Kids?
Oftentimes, before the kids are even ready to go to school, parents have it set in their brains the school they will go to. Most often, it is simply the neighborhood school. While there certainly is nothing wrong with sending kids to a neighborhood school, it could be a hindrance to have a default school choice.
Comments
Great article and very accurate in pinpointing what makes kids more successful in school!
Wonderful info! There is open enrollement in the nearby school district where my kids went previously, but they seem to be doing much better where they are now, and they are all happier as well.
This is a great informative article about something that gets very confusing.
It's one thing that's great about Thai education. Parents can choose which school their child goes to, even if it's a government school. Some kids travel for a couple of hours a day to school though, but they do it because their parents feel the school gives them a better education. Good article!
great info! I've been considering alternate school choices for my kids when they get older and into the jr. high/high school. The current school is not doing great and there are gangs/violence and things that didn't seem to exist when I was in school. We are looking into a charter school that takes only a handful of students and is hard to get into but the teachers there are there because they want to teach and have pupils that want to learn, not just for a paycheck and health bennies (although they are important and all teachers should have them ;)
Lyn: Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
I do not have to worry about this now...and my daughter is a teacher...but, if I could do it over again...I would reconsider in a moment!
Excellent article, Lyn! This is an issue that deserves all the exposure it can get-- I can see why it's close to your heart. :)
Guess your typo was to open our eyes more Jan...lol :-)
oops - don't know why eye opener jammed together like that.
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