We have a brilliant Child who does not learn in traditional ways. We had them in the public school system and now they go to an independent school that can take more time with them and we are starting to see wings sprouting. I wonder at this point in our childs school career if they were in the public school system if they would be falling through the cracks and getting into more and more trouble because the public school system does not have the resources to fund the amount of one on one attention that a child with this type of learning style needs. I wonder about how the color of my childs skin would play in its socialization and their involvement in problem areas. In the 5 years that our child was in the public school system we had amazing teachers that saw the brilliance and the learning challenges that our child had and they tried their best to figure out how, in the system that they worked with, to give our child what they needed. We were slowly falling more and more behind, in no way due to the teachers but in the inability for the school system to react to what they saw. Now that North Carolina is the lowest in Public Schools in the nation (51st) I wonder about all the brilliant children that are falling through the cracks. I worry about the children that have parents with low income wages, working hard while trying to give their children a stable home and watching, I assume feeling helpless, as their child struggles and succumes to a culture that appears to not care. Who are we losing today because of the system? What type of pressure does this put on our teachers when we are in a system that is based on test scores, but doesnt give the teachers the tools to solve the problems that they see in front of them? I am troubled and perplexed.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:40:43 +0000
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