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I have three kids in grades 3-7 in USA and I spend a lot of time after work helping them, mainly in math and writing. I think that is the most valuable in terms

by mzs 13y ago

I have three kids in grades 3-7 in USA and I spend a lot of time after work helping them, mainly in math and writing. I think that is the most valuable in terms of the educational benefit itself, but I also have helped in the school.Just rudimentary stuff like I read while the teacher prepared an activity on some tables, or staple sheets together cause that thing on the copy machine was perpetually broken. It's not really about improving education just me being a small help and getting to see what my kid and the staff deal with day in day out first hand. My wife was educated in Poland, and school is a lot different there, like the article points out. One thing about here though that is better is that there is so much other than school going on, like the sports, music, drama, and art. They also have clubs that meet there. The main fundraiser is like a carnival, again no help in education at all, but the kids like it. Whatever, my view is until uni as long as there was good enough preparation in math and writing, the smart kids will do fine anyway, so people should not stress so much.

lotsofcows 13y ago
What about the kids who aren't smart?
tokenadult 13y ago
My friend from Poland (a co-founder of one of the programs run by my nonprofit) was very pleased with his daughter's education until she was in middle school, when he found out that she was learning very little for a few years. He made sure his younger child, his son, had more steady supplementary education through middle school, and encouraged his daughter to challenge herself to catch up during high school. For most of us who have spouses educated in other countries who now live in the United States (I am such a person too), the most successful both-and is to set the expectations of curricula in other countries, while allowing the multifaceted extracurricular activities commonplace in the United States.

by mzs 13y ago

lotsofcows 13y ago

What about the kids who aren't smart?

tokenadult 13y ago

My friend from Poland (a co-founder of one of the programs run by my nonprofit) was very pleased with his daughter's education until she was in middle school, when he found out that she was learning very little for a few years. He made sure his younger child, his son, had more steady supplementary education through middle school, and encouraged his daughter to challenge herself to catch up during high school. For most of us who have spouses educated in other countries who now live in the United States (I am such a person too), the most successful both-and is to set the expectations of curricula in other countries, while allowing the multifaceted extracurricular activities commonplace in the United States.