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The Montessori Home Schooling Method Explained
Although there certainly are a lot of different ways that you can teach your child at home, the Montessori home schooling method is one that is preferred by many parents and children alike. The reason why it is so popular is because it allows the child to develop at their own speed for a number of different reasons. Here is just a little bit about Montessori home schooling and what it can do for your child’s development into a healthy adult.
The person behind the development of the Montessori method had the basic ideal that children need to develop at their own speed. This is one of the inherent flaws with the public school system, the fact that the entire group moves through the curriculum together. No consideration is taken for the fact that some children are going to develop in certain areas faster than others. This can really hinder a child as far as their current education is considered and can harm their development for the long term as well.
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Melrose Place and Med Schools – Cost Passed on to Health Insurance
While flipping channels, I came across an episode of the new Melrose Place series. Surprisingly, a plot line in the episode made me think about the cost of health care in America. One of the main characters, Lauren Bishop, is a student in medical school. She is dedicated to medicine and excels in her classes, but financial strife jeopardizes her education. This is an all-too-common scenario in real life; crushing student loans and the lack of ability to pay have led to a shortage in primary care physicians. There are fewer family doctors available to offer preventative care; this results in more patients resorting to expensive specialists or emergency rooms with serious ailments that could have been nipped in the bud if properly monitored. Health insurers and their patients must cover the increased costs of this.
The case of Melrose’s Lauren is an extreme example of the need to include educational support in any healthcare reform bill. After a mix-up at the financial aid office, her medical school informs her that she will be kicked out if she can’t pay them $25,000 by the end of the semester. Lauren is now out of options, and–this being a nighttime soap–she reluctantly becomes an escort to fund her dream. While obviously a dramatization, the show is unusually realistic in its portrayal of struggling med school students and the financial hardships they often face. How does this affect your health insurance costs? There are several ways in which this happens.
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Education – Public Vs. Private
Another continuing battle in the world of education and politics is public versus private education. The arguments for and against each are compelling. This is another one of those debates where there is no winner or loser, right or wrong, though there are those who disagree. We’ll present each side of the argument without taking one side or the other.
The obvious arguments for a private education is the quality of that education itself, or at least so the supporters say. Supposedly, a child who goes to a private school gets better teachers, newer books, individualized attention, smaller classes and the so called better class of person to share his pencil case with. The person who goes to a private school doesn’t have to worry about being picked on by bullies. Private schools are simply the ideal utopia for your young child.
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