Hi, I happened upon your journal via serrana's, whom I also just met, and have friended you - hope you don't mind. I have a 3 and 1/2 year old and am interested in schooling. Also feminism and things bookish.
It's the classic middle-class anxiety - I want her to be at school in a special place, one that will challenge and stimulate her, one where she comes home full of new ideas, one that recognizes her for herself and helps make an individualized path to learning. I just want that all in a public school that takes all comers, including the kids whose parents don't speak English, or are only semi-literate, who don't have books in the house, kids who don't get enough to eat at home, who are smacked around or neglected.
That is beautifully put and encapsulates the dilemma exactly!
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Date: 2008-09-05 11:50 am (UTC)It's the classic middle-class anxiety - I want her to be at school in a special place, one that will challenge and stimulate her, one where she comes home full of new ideas, one that recognizes her for herself and helps make an individualized path to learning. I just want that all in a public school that takes all comers, including the kids whose parents don't speak English, or are only semi-literate, who don't have books in the house, kids who don't get enough to eat at home, who are smacked around or neglected.
That is beautifully put and encapsulates the dilemma exactly!