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To: Rambi who wrote (12667)	9/21/1998 2:24:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 71178

Penni, The school really is pretty good (at 5K a year it ought to be, but that's another story). I like the small classes, of course, and also the multinational flavor. The teachers are mostly from New Zealand, and are a very open, enthusiastic, energetic bunch; the whole feeling of the place is very friendly and upbeat. Joey has settled in very quickly, though he came from pretty much the opposite end of the spectrum - a small public school up in the tribal region. He was lucky there as well. The facilities were very rudimentary, like something out of a TV bio of Abe Lincoln, but the teaching was really pretty good. It was a small and very close community, and they placed a lot of emphasis on education; the kids admire and give status to those who excel in school, and if a kid is absent for more than 2 days the teacher would come to the house to see what's wrong. That kind of place. Academically, he was able to move into the upscale private school without needing any catching up at all. Something to think about, since the tuition of 5 kids at his current school would probably exceed the entire annual budget of the previous school. I doubt I'd get along well with the American school system; I didn't much care for it when I was in it, and I suspect it would be worse as a parent. Not so sure about home schooling, though. Wouldn't they miss out on a lot of the social adjustments? And when sooner or later they go back into the system, how hard would it be? Not to mention the fact that I'd be totally unable to teach math, and I wouldn't want to condemn the poor kid to writing for a living. Don't kids gain from the teacher's mystique, rather than learning from parents, whose fallibility is so frequently and conclusively demonstrated? I always thought that one reason I took so badly to college is that, coming from a household of professors, I already knew what was going on behind the scenes. Steve