Posted by alexandra_k on July 2, 2005, at 19:29:15
In reply to Re: Does anyone homeschool their kids ? » alexandra_k, posted by gromit on June 27, 2005, at 4:46:27
Yeah, kids need to be around other kids. Thats something that can be a bit harder with homeschooling. That being said, if there is more than one kid then at least they have each other...
Yeah, we have zones over here too. Generally speaking you are supposed to go to your 'local' school. The schools do have some kind of provision to accept a certain number of nonlocals though... And... Well... I'm not toooooooo sure but I think you can fairly much choose where you want to go at High School level.
It was stricter when my brother was a teenager. We moved into a certain area mostly because he would be within the zone for a certain school.
I think that you are allowed to choose to go to a single sex school. That may involve you going outside your zone. And there are a couple catholic schools (also single sex) and they don't go by zoning either.
I went to a few... Got 'asked to leave' one school... Then another school... Managed to complete 7th form (last year where you get entry to uni) at another school again...
I didn't have toooooooo many problems enrolling in those other schools.
I guess it is a little different where the socio-economic classes of different zones are very different. Where the quality of the school is very different.
There isn't so very much variation over here.
Except for the very expensive private schools. Personally... I'm not so very sure they are worth the money over here. Our public schooling isn't so bad and you get the opportunity to meet a more representative cross-section of society.
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