They are similar but for vastly different reasons.
With the growing popularity of home schooling, only one of the two institutions has a mandatory membership.They are similar but for vastly different reasons.
Didn't you go to school? It was a sentence, alright.
With the growing popularity of home schooling, only one of the two institutions has a mandatory membership.
I don't know how schools are now, bet we had sports, gymnastics, soccer, etc. Wood working shop, Photography, Music or cooking, foreign languages, even the school newspaper which I volunteerd my time in.
Dancing and school parties, too.
A lot to offer that students wouldn't get at home.
I don't know how schools are there in the US.
But, even track & field was great. Those touraments we had against other schools, and I always got a few ribbons.
We played many soccer games, too, a lot of them off school hrs... playing against other classes.
I only recall 1, maybe 2 overweight students in my class and surrounding B & C classes.
We didn't have video games, computers and texting back in those days.
We couldn't even use the home phone to call up our friends, since back in Germany those local calls were 50 pfennigs each... so we just always walked to meet our friends.
Oh yeah, I have never been driven to school either !
And driving age in Germany is 18, so you'll basically never see students driving up with cars to high school, either.
Besides, it requires mandatory professional driving school hrs, (back then 25 hrs), plus mandatory autobahn hrs, night time hrs, and freeway hrs.
Plus a 2 day CPR course , also mandatory.
Costed me apprx $2000 back then in 1981, and that was done with minimum hrs and passing both tests (written and road) at first try.
I will never regret those great years I had in school.
School design, particularly public school design, is often lumped in with the design of other institutional structures like jails, civic centers and hospitals, to detrimental effect. My high school, for example, had the dubious distinction of having been designed by the architect responsible for San Quentin. (The convicts got the better building.) Schools fulfill a practical function, to be sure, but shouldn’t they be designed to inspire?
Many preschools already are: outdoor activities are emphasized — swinging, walking, digging. But as kids get older, in this generation more than any that has preceded it, the time they spend in nature decreases significantly.
Throughout the United States, students are installed in institutional, even citadel-like environments early on: they arrive at school in cars or buses (where once they might have walked) and step directly into buildings, where they spend 8 hours in classrooms, interacting with the outdoors only in prescribed spaces and only for allotted amounts of time. (This is not just an urban problem; watch “Radiant City: A Documentary About Suburban Sprawl” for a devastating assessment of what contemporary suburban and exurban subdivisions are doing to Americans’ relationships with nature — and one another.) The “teach to the test” curriculum stipulated by No Child Left Behind further restricts the sort of creativity and exploration integral to a good education.
It just shows what is needed for one to "learn a lesson". A third category could also be the office cubicle !
You'd have to ask your classmates!!I personally can't see home schooling having an advantage.