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[kimberlysteele]

 

 

 

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Re: About the school

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know as much about curriculum as homeschoolers likely do, but I'm happy to help think through and review things. The school we were involved in was early childcare (12 weeks through 5 years) and was based on the Reggio Emilia approach: https://www.education.com/magazine/article/Reggio_Emilia/. My kids have also gone to a French immersion/French curriculum public charter school (also a startup and we were there in the first few years of its operation) and regular, urban public schools. Both are centralized, top-down approaches--set by the French government in the first instance and our state government in the second--so I have some sense of what can work well and what can be pretty horrible.

In addition to curriculum, I think it will be VERY important to consider governing structure, who gets a voice, teacher's rights, etc.. JMG has mentioned pitfalls like entryism, and schools seem to bring out the crazy in people...