My Question of the Day: During your school years, who was your favorite teacher and why?

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My Question of the Day: Knowing that you could definitely afford it, would you send your child(ren) to another country where the educational system is better than the educational system in your country?

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My Question of the Day: Many of us have heard the expression “children are like sponges.” Imagine your four-year-old is attending pre-school, and the teacher sends a note home that s/he wants to have a conference with you about your child’s educational future. You go to the parent-teacher conference and are pleasantly surprised to learn that all the hard work you put in with your child before s/he started attending preschool has paid off. The teacher explains to you how much further advanced your child is than other students his/her age. The teacher shows you your child’s tests scores; a test, by the by, that you had no idea the school had administered to your child. The test is for first-graders, and your pre-schooler scored in the top 99th percentile of test-takers. Based on these scores, the teacher would like you to consent to have your soon-to-be five-year-old advanced to the second grade, because the teacher believes your child would be bored in first grade and is concerned that your child will lose the learning momentum that s/he has gathered up to this point. What do you do?

My 2 Cents: I’d first want to know under what and/or whose authority the school/teacher tested my child without my knowledge or consent. It’s great that s/he tested so highly and is now considered smart beyond his/her years, but what if s/he had tested very poorly, and because of that this same teacher, who is now lauding my child’s intelligence, was trying to convince me my child has a learning disability and should be held back from advancing? I wouldn’t get so caught up in the good news that I’d let that bit of information go unnoticed or unaddressed.

Armed with the knowledge that my child has tested so well, I’d more than likely begin looking for a program of other five-year-olds who are also gifted and talented like my child and put him/her in that environment, as opposed to putting my child in a class with seven- and/or eight-year-olds. The difference in development and maturity between 5-year-olds and 7/8-year-olds would deter me from keeping my child in this traditional school setting. I’d be thinking about the future. When my child’s classmates are 16 and able to drive, my child will only be 14. Aside from driving, there are other things that 16-year-olds can do that 14-years-old, like work.

I wouldn’t want my child’s learning momentum to be stunted, but I wouldn’t want my child to eventually be a social misfit either. That’s why, for me as a parent, the best idea for my child’s whole development would be to diligently seek out an alternative school setting where s/he could be with children his/her own age but also receive the advanced educational skills s/he is able to handle.

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My Question of the Day: Thinking back to when you were in school, what was your least-favorite subject, and how did your dislike for that subject affect your educational/career choices once you became an adult?

My Question of the Day With A Twist: Thinking back to when you were in school, what was your most-favorite subject, and how did your love for that subject affect your educational/career choices once you became an adult?

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My Question of the Day: Thinking back to when you were in school, what was your least-favorite subject, and how did your dislike for that subject affect your educational/career choices once you became an adult?

Also see My Question of the Day for 04 May 2010 With A Twist.

My 2 Cents: My least-favorite subject in school was Science. I never seemed to have any teacher that could make that subject interesting enough for me to truly engage. As a result, I’ll never be a Crime Scene Investigator. Sigh.

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DymeStar18 My least favorite subject was probably Social Studies (Elementary), and History (HS)

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