I was having a conversation with a young couple about where they were going to have their oldest attend grammar school in the fall. They are looking at Acton schools, which are organized I believe legally as a version of homeschooling. It is apparently staffed by disaffected teachers from public and private who just got fed up with a failing model. I don't know much about this program other than what I have seen on the internet and in talking to the parents, but it sounds like there is an emerging body of alternatives to traditional "schools" focused on what you are talking about here. Teach them how to DO things, and how to THINK CRITICALLY. That's the point of this place at least according to the promos. I am not sold yet on this particular place, but intrigued that alternative models are starting to emerge.
I was having a conversation with a young couple about where they were going to have their oldest attend grammar school in the fall. They are looking at Acton schools, which are organized I believe legally as a version of homeschooling. It is apparently staffed by disaffected teachers from public and private who just got fed up with a failing model. I don't know much about this program other than what I have seen on the internet and in talking to the parents, but it sounds like there is an emerging body of alternatives to traditional "schools" focused on what you are talking about here. Teach them how to DO things, and how to THINK CRITICALLY. That's the point of this place at least according to the promos. I am not sold yet on this particular place, but intrigued that alternative models are starting to emerge.