I live in Italy and I would like to know what are the differences between private and public schools in America. I attended private schools and here the differences are that private schools are mostly owned by catholics (but I attended laic ones), you have to wear uniforms and they sound very prestigious (in fact they are, because there are some public schools where teachers know less than students, although many public schools are as prestigious as public ones) I also would like to know why a lot of people in America are homeschooled. In Italy you must attend school, it's a law. Thanks!
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idk but i go to public school
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It is also mandatory to attend school here in the U.S. Homeschooling is considered 'attending' school. I go to a public school, unfortunately, because my family can't afford to whisk me away to a private school. I have friends who are home schooled and it's because their parents are extremely overprotective. There are other reasons, though :P
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I go to a private catholic high school, although i went to public school through 8th grade. we wear uniforms, and it's a lot smaller than public school, but other than that there's not much difference. kids in America are home schooled for a lot of different reasons, but it is considered attending school (also the law).
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Things vary from school to school here, but usually public schools are much bigger than private schools. Also, not too many public schools here use uniforms. Why do we get homeschooled? Well, it varies from family to family but one of the main reasons is that parents are unhappy with the education their kids are getting from schools. Another reason is to just be a closer family. Sometimes the parents were homeschooled, so they homeschool their kids in turn. If you are homeschooled, it is technically "going to school" but the parents have control about how their kids learn. I hope this helps! MCC
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I go to Public School
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i go to public school and we dont have to wear uniforms....nd yea i dont think the teachers are catholics....but i am lolz
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Public. i think homeschooling here in the U.S is still attending school.
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There are different methods of education in America. 1.PUBLIC SCHOOL. This is a school that is open to every one, and also free. The supplies and other things are paid out of tax dollars. 2.PRIVATE SCHOOL. This is a privately owned school that does not get it’s funding out of tax dollars. It usually gets it’s money out of tuition, and/or funding through bake sales, etc. the reason there are private schools maybe religious, but it also maybe just wanting to teach more hands on, or through a different teaching method. 3.MONTISORRI EDUCATION AND WALDORF EDUCATION. I do not know that much about Montessori, and for Waldorf I know, but was not confidant in explaining, so I copied and pasted each from Wikipedia: MONTISORRI: The Montessori method is a child-centered, alternative educational method based on the child development theories originated by Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870–1952) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Primarily applied in preschool and elementary school settings (and occasionally in infant, toddler, middle school, and high school), [1][2] its method of education is characterized by emphasizing self-directed activity, on the part of the child, and clinical observation, on the part of the teacher (often called a director, directress, guide) — to stress the importance of adapting the child’s learning environment to his or her development level, and the role of physical activity in the child’s absorbing abstract concepts and learning practical skills. Auto-didactic (self-correcting) equipment is used for introducing and learning concepts, and reading is taught via phonics and whole language, the comparative benefits of which are presently being recognized.[3] The Montessori name is famous, but not a trademark, and it is associated with more than one organization. There are schools “influenced by Montessori†bearing little resemblance, and which have received substantive criticism from schools with a closer lineage to Montessori’s work.[4] This article is about Dr. Maria Montessori’s work, that of her colleagues and successors. WALDORF: Waldorf education is a pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrating practical, artistic, and conceptual elements.[1] The Waldorf approach emphasizes the role of the imagination,[2][3][4] developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component.[5][6] The overarching goals of this educational approach are to provide young people the basis on which to develop into free, moral[7][8] and integrated individuals,[2][9][10] and to help every child fulfill his or her unique destiny, the existence of which anthroposophy posits.[11][12] Schools and teachers are given considerable freedom to define curricula within collegial structures.[13] The first Waldorf school was founded in 1919 to serve the children of employees at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart. There are 994[14][15] independent Waldorf schools and in 2001 had "1400 kindergartens 120 special remedial institutions, 68 social and teacher training institutions in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia"[16] located in approximately sixty countries throughout the world.[15] There are also Waldorf-based public and Charter schools, homeschooling environments,[2] and schools for special education, and Waldorf ideas are being reproduced, often less in whole than in part, in an expanding number of American public and private schools today.[17][18] The educational approach is known in some countries as Steiner or Steiner-Waldorf education. 4.HOMESCHOOLING. Homeschooling can be for religious reasons, or simply (for the reason I did) not liking the public schools mode for teaching and the whole “mainstream†aspect of it. Homeschooling is now(YES!!!) legal in all states, but each state has different laws. Most homeschoolers are required to take more tests than public scholars, and maybe visited by someone to make sure your studying all the subjects and whatnot. 5.UNSCHOOLING. Unschooling, which not many people realize, is in fact different from homeschooling. “Unschooling†is where you study based on the scholar’s interests, and is generally way more loose than homeschooling. Again, unschoolers have to go by their states laws just like homeschoolers-the only difference between the two is teaching method. Both are done at home.
