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[quote=Anonymous]You're arguing against a public school parent not too familiar with private school but who still thinks alternative education is important. Common Core as I've read it indicates the standards to be learnt for each grade. They are pretty specific such as 1st graders should know phonics and be introduced to fractions. Not just children should improve in math and reading. Another school might focus on something entirely different for 1st grade leaving those things to be taught later. Take Waldorf for example, a school I'm a little familiar with. They leave phonics till later but focus heavily on reading comprehension and play acting in early grades. Those ideas trickle into public school classrooms as enrichment or a project the teacher takes on or a play 1st graders put on. They also have a class called Eurythmy which is basically creative movement. PE teachers are now incorporating dance, yoga, and creative movement much more into the public schools than before. They also teach the recorder in Waldorf. This is also something a lot of public schools implement in more recent years as teachers realized this was a great first instrument to start kids off with. Waldorf also teaches knitting and teaches math such as addition and multiplication with it. They also use pictures and manipulatives to teach math operations. Now public schools are using more manipulatives to teach these operations. This is just one type of school system compared in a small way to public schools, however I'm trying to demonstrate that charters and private schools often try out new methods which can result in some better ways of teaching which are then implemented by the mass public school system and therefore they have a benefit to society. With the flexibility like in Finnish schools, you can probably get away with not having privates, but the current US school system does not operate that way. Also the US is all about free choice, so I doubt it will ever do away with private schools.[/quote]

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