The Oaks Private School believes that the daily work completed in the classroom, evaluated and graded by a teacher who has been certified by the state, is a more accurate picture of what each student has learned than a single exit exam. Under the CVEP - if you did the coursework and earned the credits -- you get your diploma! It's just that simple.
Surely with all the money, computers, and Internet services that have been provided to public schools, American children are probably doing very well in Math and Science RIGHT? Unfortunately, the facts say NO!
Whats going on in our public schools? A great social struggle that has been going on for centuries as to whether children belong to the state or to their parents.
What concerned parents must understand is what the public schools are doing to our children academically right now. What that means for their future is for you to decide.
The NEA fiercely opposes any program that creates or encourages competition to public schools, such as vouchers, tuition tax credits, and parental choice of school
Millions of parents entrust their children daily to public school teachers for instruction. But those children are learning more from the examples of teachers and administrators than just academics. They are being taught that dishonesty is just another way of getting by
Today, many public school reformers are pinning their hopes on competition from charter schools, outside management, and vouchers to force improvement on public schools. However, all of these efforts are meeting with massive resistance from the education industry, especially the teachers unions.
Is it possible to reform public schools? No! Why not? Because the educational system in America is a monopoly.
If you are saying to yourself that public schools can be reformed, you haven't been paying attention. A public school by its very nature cannot provide a morally-based and academically superior education appropriate for any child. This is because public school reform has always meant different things to different people.
Laws establishing school-based health clinics are ignoring parental rights. These school clinics not only distribute birth control drugs and devices to schoolgirls, they do so without obtaining parental consent and are even prohibited by law from notifying the parents.