required testing/curious
Wildflower Car
For those of you who have to do testing to unschool, I have a question.
Do you prepare them for the test? And what happens if they fail it? Surely
there are plenty of kids who fail test in PS.
I was just thinking that if I had to test, I would just let them take the
test. If they passed or failed, who cares. Does the state take away you
ability to keep them out of PS? We don't have testing here, so I have never
had to deal with it.
Wildflower
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Do you prepare them for the test? And what happens if they fail it? Surely
there are plenty of kids who fail test in PS.
I was just thinking that if I had to test, I would just let them take the
test. If they passed or failed, who cares. Does the state take away you
ability to keep them out of PS? We don't have testing here, so I have never
had to deal with it.
Wildflower
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Wildflower Car
For those of you who have to do testing to unschool, I have a question.
Do you prepare them for the test? And what happens if they fail it? Surely
there are plenty of kids who fail test in PS.
I was just thinking that if I had to test, I would just let them take the
test. If they passed or failed, who cares. Does the state take away you
ability to keep them out of PS? We don't have testing here, so I have never
had to deal with it.
Wildflower
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Do you prepare them for the test? And what happens if they fail it? Surely
there are plenty of kids who fail test in PS.
I was just thinking that if I had to test, I would just let them take the
test. If they passed or failed, who cares. Does the state take away you
ability to keep them out of PS? We don't have testing here, so I have never
had to deal with it.
Wildflower
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"Wildflower Car" <unschoolfool@...> wrote:
year, according to the "plan d'études" of the public school. They are
allowed to be homeschooled only if they succeed at these annual tests.
This part worried me, as I wanted my kids to be free to learn at their
own pace and following their own lead, so I did what somebody here
suggested me once, on another subject : I looked for more information
(information is often a good cure for fears, that's what I had been
told, by Joyce if I remember well). I called the person in charge of
these tests and have been quite reassured : if my kid fail once, he
won't be sent back to school between two policemen. It also depends on
how far "behind" from the standards he is ... These tests are meant to
protect the children and the state will try to find a solution with the
parents rather than against them.
The feeling I got from discussing with this person was that they were
quite open. But I don't know any true radical unschoolers here, so I
guess she hasn't met many either :) It's difficult in these conditions
to anticipate what her reaction could be ... That's why I would like
to "train" Sylvain to do the kind of exercise they'll propose, but this
only if I can do it "lightly" - and that was the sense of my question
in another message.
Helen
>Here in Geneva (Switzerland), kids are tested in French and maths every
> If they passed or failed, who cares. Does the state take away you
> ability to keep them out of PS?
year, according to the "plan d'études" of the public school. They are
allowed to be homeschooled only if they succeed at these annual tests.
This part worried me, as I wanted my kids to be free to learn at their
own pace and following their own lead, so I did what somebody here
suggested me once, on another subject : I looked for more information
(information is often a good cure for fears, that's what I had been
told, by Joyce if I remember well). I called the person in charge of
these tests and have been quite reassured : if my kid fail once, he
won't be sent back to school between two policemen. It also depends on
how far "behind" from the standards he is ... These tests are meant to
protect the children and the state will try to find a solution with the
parents rather than against them.
The feeling I got from discussing with this person was that they were
quite open. But I don't know any true radical unschoolers here, so I
guess she hasn't met many either :) It's difficult in these conditions
to anticipate what her reaction could be ... That's why I would like
to "train" Sylvain to do the kind of exercise they'll propose, but this
only if I can do it "lightly" - and that was the sense of my question
in another message.
Helen