Interesting. The typical day you describe at Anna Tapio is actually very similar to the typical day - if non-typical is typical - at the charter school my sister's kids are in, except the stuff they leverage locally in Simi Valley is of course different. Through various collaborations with teachers, parents, and administrators, the month before Christmas included stuff like a tour of Space-X, a group bicycle ride through a flower nursery's land, a physics unit combined with an archery contest, a group attendance of Phantom Of The Opera, and so on. It's so much more engaging and varied than the school I attended as a kid, it's absurd.
The kids are way, way happier and their test results are decent too. My eldest nephew - the one who's been in the charter system the longest - just took the PSAT and scored 1380 out of 1520. My second eldest won his category (natural sciences) in the STATE science fair this year - i.e. for all of California. He spent the prize money on admission to a paleontology safari in North Dakota and dug up dinosaur bones next to grad students for a week.
You can't argue with results like that... Hybrid state/private schools, assembled and run at the grassroots level, are an idea whose time has come.
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Date: 28/12/16 04:58 (UTC)The kids are way, way happier and their test results are decent too. My eldest nephew - the one who's been in the charter system the longest - just took the PSAT and scored 1380 out of 1520. My second eldest won his category (natural sciences) in the STATE science fair this year - i.e. for all of California. He spent the prize money on admission to a paleontology safari in North Dakota and dug up dinosaur bones next to grad students for a week.
You can't argue with results like that... Hybrid state/private schools, assembled and run at the grassroots level, are an idea whose time has come.