While googling and searching throughout the Internet, I came across and interesting website that offered good information in regards to alternative education. Although there are many outlets a parents may choose in order to further educate their child in the most effective way, determining whether or not their child may need a form of Alternative education may pose as an even greater challenge. The Education Revolution provided ten signs for determining whether or not there is a need for an Alternative form of education. The site provides a detailed explanation for each statement. I will simply provide the statement. For further information one may address the site for a more detailed explanation.
- 1. Does your child say he or she hates school?
- 2. Does your child find it difficult to look an adult in the eye, or to interact with children younger or older than they are?
- 3. Does your child seem fixated on designer labels and trendy clothes for school?
- 4. Does your child come from school tired and cranky?
- 5. Do your children come home complaining about conflicts that they've had in school and unfair situations that they have been exposed to?
- 6. Has your child lost interest in creative expression through art, music, and dance?
- 7. Has your child stopped reading for fun, or reading or writing for pleasure? Are your children doing just the minimum for homework and going off for some escapist activity?
- 8. Does your child procrastinate until the last minute to do homework?
- 9. Does your child come home talking about anything exciting that happened in school that day?If not, maybe nothing exciting is happening for your child in school. Would you want to keep working if your job was like that?
- 10. Did the school nurse of guidance counselor suggest that your child has some strange three lettered disease, like ADD, and that they should now be given Ritalin or some other drug?
Information was provided by The Education Revolution.
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