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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 01:01 |
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Joel Turtel, author of "Public Schools, Public Menace: How
Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children," says
busy working parents can give their kids a quality, low-cost,
private-school education at home using the Internet.
Turtel says, "Internet private schools take most of the burden
off parents" backs.”
Millions of desperate parents today are appalled at the inferior
education public schools give their kids, but think they have no
where else to go.
Many parents believe that the only alternative to public schools
is either a Catholic or Protestant-affiliated school or
expensive non-religious private school. The problem is that even
Catholic schools now charge an average tuition between $3000 to
$4000 a year. Non-religious private schools can charge between
$7000 to over $14,000 a year.
Millions of low and middle-income parents simply cannot afford
this tuition, so they think they are stuck with public schools.
Turtel says there’s another way. Now parents can give their kids
an excellent private-school education through Internet schools
that cater to K-12th grade students.
Many Internet private schools have low tuition costs, from as
low as $350 a year to $2000 or more a year. Many schools charge
less than $850 a year.
For example, the Clonlara School currently charges about $750
for the 2005-06 school year for a new student in kindergarten
through 8th grade studies. Children get a thorough education in
Reading, Math, History, and many other subjects in the
curriculum, and the school assigns a personal teacher to each
child.
There are dozens of excellent Internet private schools parents
can choose from. Some schools such as Keystone National High
School only offer high-school programs while others offer a
complete, kindergarten through 12th grade education.
Many accredited Internet schools give a course of study similar
to traditional private schools. They take children through a
progressive curriculum in math, science, reading and writing,
history, and many other subjects.
This structured, comprehensive program, in effect, gives
children a personal teacher and private-school education in
their own living room.
This setup is especially helpful for single-working moms, or
families where both mother and father work. Since
Internet-school teachers supervise the child"s education, it"s
less likely that parents have to take time from work or quit
their job to homeschool their kids.
As Turtel says to parents in his book , “You don’t have to
settle for a third-rate public- school education for your
children. You do have alternatives, many excellent, low-cost
alternatives that can give your children a first-rate education
and a rewarding future.”
"Public School, Public Menace" has a whole Resource section
devoted to Internet private schools and many other education
options. The author lists dozens of Internet schools with their
website addresses. Parents can quickly research these schools,
find out if the yearly tuition fits their budget and the
curriculum and teaching methods look suitable for their child.
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