Your Child, Your Choice: Finding the Right School For Your Child
By Gary Gruber
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Different children need different types of schools One size does not fit all. This is an easy to use, short handbook for parents who want a process for choosing the best school for their children. Questionnaire in the back is a helpful guide for next steps.
Gary Gruber
Dr Gary Gruber is a long-time educator in both public and private schools in different parts of the U.S. and abroad. He is a parents, a grandparent, a teacher, coach and consultant. His expertise is understanding children, their parents and the schools that are designed to serve them.
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Your Child, Your Choice - Gary Gruber
PREFACE
You may have more school choices available to you than you thought possible. There are options that can be exercised for a number of good reasons, especially for those willing to dig in and do some research.
This handbook for parents is about how to make an informed choice, one based on several variables including the age and stage of your child and his or her specific needs and interests. There are numerous schools accessible for your consideration for the best match. That school may or may not be your local neighborhood school chosen only because of proximity. Convenience can certainly be figured into the equation, but it does not need to be the most important variable.
What is it that you want for your child’s educational experience? One of the first things is to determine whether there is any difference between what you want for your child and what your child really needs. You must exercise care that as parents you do not impose expectations on your child that are either unrealistic or unreasonable.
It is reasonable to expect that your child has the capacity to develop the skills and to acquire an education that will help him or her be a productive member of a community as well as a happy and successful individual. It is also incumbent upon parents to zero in on your child’s strengths and capitalize on those to help develop the hidden talents that exist within every child.
One of my former colleagues, an outstanding, long-time college counselor and author of The College Admissions Mystique, Bill Mayher, says that we should be in the business of creating happy 35 year-olds. As a parent of three children and stepparent of four, all of whom are now beyond 35, I appreciate Bill’s point more than ever.
The educational journey needs to have a vision that extends beyond one year or even four years and includes many experiences beyond the walls of a school. You do not need to be too concerned about short-term effects from moment to moment because learning is cumulative over time and education is a process, not an event.
I believe we should also dispel the myth that everyone needs to go to college, especially a four-year, post secondary college or university that is theoretically supposed to guarantee a good job and a better life. There are many viable, post-secondary training experiences that do not require a four year or even in some cases a two year commitment. These avenues include technology, electronics, skilled mechanics and engineering, and apprenticeships in a variety of trades or as a creative and innovative entrepreneur.
Today, a bachelor’s degree at the expense of four years of one’s life and considerable cost guarantees very little. It remains however, the pre-requisite, in most cases, to do graduate work in a university. Local community colleges have risen in the ranks of a quality post-secondary education and they are much more affordable than many other colleges.
For those of us who are committed life-long learners there are always new things to learn. WE can explore fields outside our own professional experiences in a continuing curiosity about the world in which we live and the people who populate it. And for some, taking a course that is unrelated to our sometimes more narrow concentration has been a real pleasure and joy.
As an example, I know an engineer who took a woodworking course and although he was familiar with tools of his current trade, woodworking was an entirely new and enjoyable experience. Another example closer to home is when I took a course in my undergraduate university in residential architecture. That learning experience stimulated an interest in architecture and design that continues to this day.
What most parents seem to want, regardless of where they live or their socio-economic status is exemplified by a quote from a film, fourteen years in the making. American Promise, by Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster, documents their son’s and his best friend’s educational experiences at an elite private school in New York City:
"...parents want their children to acquire a sense of self-esteem and self-determination. And every permutation of the academic experience (single sex/coed, public/private/charter, racially diverse and downtown, or socioeconomically stratified uptown) is presented as some grand experiment that might reveal ‘The Solution’ to growing