Comments on: Have we given up on public school? http://dadventure.ca/2007/10/30/have-we-given-up-on-public-school/ Traipsing through this jungle called parenthood Sun, 20 May 2012 09:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clint http://dadventure.ca/2007/10/30/have-we-given-up-on-public-school/comment-page-1/#comment-27247 Clint Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:52:38 +0000 http://dadventure.ca/2007/10/30/have-we-given-up-on-public-school/#comment-27247 I did some work a couple of years ago with one of our local high schools and was blown away at how under resourced they are in the technology areas - not that is the only area where innovative practice happens, but that is the one obvious shortfall I experienced. Pedagogically, I can't say. I haven't experienced the elementary system yet first hand, or looked into it. But it does seem that the system as a whole is quite slow to change. I did some work a couple of years ago with one of our local high schools and was blown away at how under resourced they are in the technology areas – not that is the only area where innovative practice happens, but that is the one obvious shortfall I experienced.

Pedagogically, I can’t say. I haven’t experienced the elementary system yet first hand, or looked into it. But it does seem that the system as a whole is quite slow to change.

]]> By: Scott Leslie http://dadventure.ca/2007/10/30/have-we-given-up-on-public-school/comment-page-1/#comment-27227 Scott Leslie Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:36:32 +0000 http://dadventure.ca/2007/10/30/have-we-given-up-on-public-school/#comment-27227 You are right to be alarmed. While private schools have long been used as a bit of a boogey man in talking about public school enrollments, increasingly they are taking significant numbers of students and represent a real threat to public ed enrollment (and thus funding). The real downside, however, is that the education systems (at least from what I see in the province here) are SO far away from re-inventing themselves for the 21st century. There are so many potential creative responses to declining enrollments (caused far more by demographics than private school choice) but so far our school board's response has been...close yet another school. And I do not see that changing soon. You are right to be alarmed. While private schools have long been used as a bit of a boogey man in talking about public school enrollments, increasingly they are taking significant numbers of students and represent a real threat to public ed enrollment (and thus funding). The real downside, however, is that the education systems (at least from what I see in the province here) are SO far away from re-inventing themselves for the 21st century. There are so many potential creative responses to declining enrollments (caused far more by demographics than private school choice) but so far our school board’s response has been…close yet another school. And I do not see that changing soon.

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