I got straight A grades all through both private and public school. I didn’t struggle/recover in college and wasn’t homeschooled or after schooled.
BTW, most of the better teachers I had were in public school. Sorry to burst your bubble again.
No congratulations are necessary. Maybe an acknowledgment that your sweeping generalizations about public schools could be wrong is in order?
Well...**personally**...I have never met a person like you.
But...congratulations!
No, because it would absolutely contradict my entire life's experiences.
By the way,,,A's are usually the result of tons of homeschooling ( AKA “homework”) at home. Another word for homework is “afterschooling”.
In my experience, ALL academically successful children are homeschooled. If they are institutionalized and academically successful, it is because their parents “after schooled” them.
Perhaps as others think about the above statement they will see that it matches their life's experiences as well.
See, and I was the opposite. Great childhood, homelife, happy as could be but I wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box by any means.
Mid soph year I decided I wanted to go to college (Penn State specifically). So I worked my ass off and made honor roll and by junior year all honors classes/college prep track. My parents valued education and hard work. Took the SATs, scored really well considering, and my gpa from end soph year to graduation was mid 3. (I figure you’re an EE so will get all the abbreviations, not spelled out stuff, and such.)
I wasn’t an education major in college, was accepted to all Law schools I applied to, Harvard being one of them (and yeah I’m sorta proud of that given where I come from), and while driving to Villanova to fill out forms and such, passed St. Joe’s (philly, City Line Ave) and decided I didn’t want to be a lawyer but really wanted to be a teacher. Long long story, lol. I really just wanted to be a stay at home mom with a degree if I needed it. But I was good at certain things, and two were what I mentioned above. I wasn’t going to be the primary income unless it was necessary. So while passing St. Joe’s I decided to check out their teacher cert program and grad school. The rest is history. Got my ed cert, starting teaching high school history, and got my grad degree in both ed and history. Had a baby shortly thereafter and was a stay at home mom until I couldn’t be anymore so now work part time.
So my work schedule coincides with my kids school schedule. And I have two master degrees, graduated with distinction (high cum) yada yada yada. And if I didn’t have to work outside the home, I wouldn’t.
Generalizations suck :)