New Home Independent School District

from the public school system they are only qualified to take tests, more specifically speaking, standardized tests. In the image there are two men; one sitting behind a big desk reading a piece of paper and one on the other side sitting in a small chair with a huge pencil in his hand. Mike Keefe 2002, in the image the man behind the desk holding the piece of paper says to the skinny man sitting in the chair on the other side of the desk, “So, you were educated in the public school system- What…

In the mid 1800s, the desire for public education began to strive, as many American children were not given the oppurtunity to attend public school and learn vital information that would be crucial to their adulthood. Horace Mann, also known as “the father of American public schools,” led this movement for public education. Mann was born in 1796 and grew up with his poor family in Franklin, Massachusettes. Throughout his childhood, Mann would go to the Franklin public library, with the few…

A direct link to schools and why certain students attend these schools can be based upon the socio economic class of students. As seen in figure 1, most of the Private school-sector students are of Middle class (73%) and very few are from lower class (8%), implying how lower-socio economic circumstances can deter a education within a private sector of schooling (Rothman, 2003). From this data (Figure 2), it is observable that from 100 public school students that were surveyed, majority of the…

Administrative Interview of Mark Hageman Mark Hageman is new to Concord Christian School. He has been hired as the CCS high school principal in the summer of 2015. Coming form a public school in Texas, Mr. Hageman’s main priority this year is to establish an anti-bullying policy. The principal mentions that even though there is no serious bullying present at CCS, he would like to create a set of regulations and procedures so that the students will feel comfortable to address bullying or…

in my area, sent me to a private college preparatory school to avoid the failing school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. While my school’s white population totaled eighty percent, Caucasian children represented the minority group in my neighborhood public school. As…

of private schools in other third world environments is required. A study published through Harvard’s Evidence for Policy Design found astonishing results from low cost private schools in Pakistan (the circumstances of the schools being very similar to many South African contexts, i.e. in poverty with underperforming public schools) (Andrabi et al., 2010:1). The test scores of students, conducted to ensure no cheating, were 0.8 to 1 standard deviations higher in low cost private schools than in…

education comes to choice? First topic explained would be about the cost of the private school, what makes it worth the cost? In many ways, private education is not worth the cost, it can turn out great or could be doubtful that a private education will be successful for the education for children. Public schools are the way to go when it comes to picking an education, it ain 't worth the time and money when private schools come along. There are many more ways you can make your children 's…

have to fulfill in order to stay within the law and not get into trouble with the IRS o Insurance: this is an obligation for me. My assets need to be protected in case of an emergency, such as car wreck or house fire o Tuition: school tuition, either for private school or for college need to be covered before anything else is considered. This is an investment for the future, to get higher paying jobs and financial security. 7. Before buying a house really, consider the monthly mortgage payment…

Students need something to which they can relate. It is easy to segregate people who fear the unknown and have no desire to learn or try anything different from what they learn at home. The fact that Alabama’s schools only started integrating about 50 years ago illustrates the importance of cultural diversity in the school…

Secularism in the Schools In 1962 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of school-sponsored prayer being unconstitutional, as in the case of Engel v. Vitale. This case involved state officials of the Broad of Education in the Union Free School District in New York who composed a prayer which was given to the principal to be read in each of the classrooms in the presence of the school teacher at the beginning of the school day. It read “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee…