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This. I'm not saying the way they teach is bad- but there's little pressure to keep up with the pedagogy and best practices. I like DD's teachers, but I haven't yet seen the kind of creative, innovative ideas that we saw and see in public. All these kids will be fine and they will go on to good high schools and colleges, so there just isn't the pressure to do better.[/quote]

I beg to differ. In our private school in the South this year kids are 
- creating a podcast about some current social issue, learning how to write scripts, public speaking, research,
- for Global Studies they will go to DC, visit Holocaust museum (they will have learned about Holocaust in class), visit an embassy and the Treasury
- in design engineering they pick a project (build a mouse trap, for instance), do the design, make a lost of materials, get the materials and build it using hammers, saws, power tools, etc.
- for history last year they did a mock trial over Christopher Columbus and had to play roles of persecution, lawyers, witnesses, jury.

Teachers go out of the way to make learning fun. [/quote]

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