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How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids: Questions to Consider

To find the school that best fits you and your child, and make sure you get the highest return on one of the biggest investments of your life, there are some things to think about. You need to consider how each of the factors or school characteristics influences your child’s education and success.

Here are some tips of what to consider when trying determining your formula for finding the best school. These will improve the chances of your investment being a success. They are in no particular order.

School Size

The size of the school needs to match your kid’s personality. Big schools have more programs, more enrichment, and more options in teaching. But there is always a risk that your child will get lost in the hustle and bustle. Check out the school, go meet the principal, talk to parents. Often, parents choose little schools because they want their child to get personal attention. The principal knows the children by name and the school has a personal touch. My children went primary school with over 1600 kids in it. The principal knew all the kids’ names, their parents’ names, their parent’s professions and what their hobbies were. It is possible to get a big school with a personal touch. This was good for my kids. Other parents who went to the exact same schools felt that their child was just a number in such a big school. It was not for them.

This post is part 3 of 3 in the series How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids

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Published: March 12, 2013 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: September 17, 2020In: Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: practical parenting / parents, action, social, teaching / teachers, empowerment, tuition, mom, tutoring, change, needs, motivation, positive, learning disabilities, kids / children, special education, social skills, tips, school, family matters, behavior / discipline, emotional intelligence, environment, how to, assessment, education / learning, choice, k-12 education

How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids: The Formula

As parents, our choice of appropriate school for our kids needs to be revaluated every year. If a child is spends up to 13 years at school, we should be re-evaluating our choice at least 13 times.

Unfortunately, some people just send their kids to the closest school. Sometimes, it is the only school available and in fact, they do not really have much of a choice. The majority of parents believe they should make schooling choices about two or three times. Depending on the structure of the education system, parents make choices about day care/ kindergarten, primary school, and middle school/high school. Some parents even consider this question only once and decide to send their kid to a college (which goes from kindergarten to Grade 12).

This post is part 2 of 3 in the series How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids

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Published: March 5, 2013 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: September 17, 2020In: Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: choice, k-12 education, education / learning, action, social, practical parenting / parents, empowerment, tuition, teaching / teachers, mom, tutoring, change, academic performance, motivation, needs, learning disabilities, positive, special education, social skills, kids / children, school, family matters, tips, emotional intelligence, environment, behavior / discipline, how to, assessment

How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids: Return on Investment

Education is one of the most important investments in life (followed closely by investing in relationships). Many people around the world spend a fortune on a good school for their kids. Sadly, this fortune is often wasted and they end up blaming their children for not making the most out of the opportunity they were given. It is similar to investing in the share market or in property, you find a lousy house or buy very shaky shares and complain when they do not increase in value.

Children spend the majority of their most valuable childhood years in educational institutions. Think about it this way: out of 7 days a week, 5 of them are dedicated to schooling. If the kids are also stimulated in other ways, they may even spend some of their weekends in educational endeavors.

Much like other investments, the decision whether to invest or not, and in what to invest depends on the potential return. If the return is high, it is considered a good investment. If the return is low, it is not a very good investment, and if there is likely to be a loss, it is a terrible investment.

This post is part 1 of 3 in the series How to Choose the Best School for Your Kids

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Published: February 21, 2013 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: March 19, 2021In: Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: behavior / discipline, how to, assessment, choice, k-12 education, education / learning, action, social, practical parenting / parents, empowerment, tuition, teaching / teachers, mom, tutoring, change, academic performance, motivation, needs, learning disabilities, positive, special education, social skills, kids / children, school, family matters, tips, emotional intelligence, environment

Learning? What learning?

As parents, we all want our kids to do well. So we look for ways to measure and track whether they are doing well. Not having gone through parenting school, most of us resort to what our parents have done with us, which is focus on the grades we “brought back home” from school. As long as the kids’ grades are good, they must be doing fine, right?

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Published: October 15, 2008 by Gal Baras
Last modified: December 24, 2019In: Parenting, Education / Learning, Kids / Children Tags: tutoring, academic performance, positive attitude tips, kids / children, focus, education / learning, school, practical parenting / parents, emotional intelligence, motivation, k-12 education, tuition

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