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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (27325)8/29/2006 12:24:59 PM
From: tonto  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541778
 
We spent a year abroad when our children were younger so that they would learn another language and the proper cadence of the language as spoken by native speakers.

2 of our three children skipped a year in the states after we returned because they were so far ahead...the 3rd we did not move ahead because she had such a great social class and we felt it more important that she remain with that class.

People were quite surprised when we made our decision to live abroad, and they were more surprised when the kids came back with a better education.



To: Mary Cluney who wrote (27325)8/29/2006 1:49:32 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 541778
 
"In the US there is no tracking- as there is in other countries- so a misstep at the lower levels, or being of the wrong "class", doesn't immeiately get you shunted into an alternative trade school system."

That is probably what is wrong with our system, but unless we really know how to fix that - we should leave it alone.

You mean that the greatest weakness in the US is that we don't have an extensive system of tracking from the lower levels?


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