Government & Education Best Posts in Thread: PUBLIC SCHOOLS: the BETTER OPTION

With all the low cost college educated teachers here, parents have the option of forming their own home schools. Use the home schooling curriculum from your home country and hire a local college grad to teach it.

Groups of parents with students in the same grade can get together and pool their resources. This would require collaboration which many find challenging.

 

you know for all the discussions we have here about cultural differences and most of the time some of the issues we have with the thinking here, i am of the opinion most of us live here because we like it better than where we came from. it is true for me even if you discount the financial advantage most of us have here, which for me i consider to be icing on the cake.

 

Not an attempt at anything. I was asked and I merely answered. Nothing more to it.

 

Getting back on topic. I have dealt with education in the CA and I can tell you home schooling and online schooling both have their challenges. To a motivated child, home schooling can work pretty well, but many aren't that motivated, which means the parents need to intervene. I've also found the quality of the online schooling not as good or challenging as in classroom instruction. Home schooling essentially makes the parent the teacher. This can work good early in the education, but how many parents are up to calculus and physics. Many of which never took the subject or have long ago forgotten the subject. Teachers get paid a good salary as it's not something you can just take someone off the street to do the job. On the teacher side, online schooling seems to make their job a lot easier.

 

Overcrowded classrooms,poor facilities, most students come from not-so-educated families (where everything starts), teachers are burdened with loads of requirements, paper work, parents couldn’t afford private tutors for their children who are often absent because they have nothing to eat, it is raining and they need to cross rivers and climb mountains and countless of other reasons why achieving quality education is a rough road to tred

 

Interesting thread and I did post something awhile back about home schooling. When the Covid restrictions are lifted we intend moving to Valencia but the schooling we have concerns about. My wife is strongly considering doing home school with the Australian curriculum.

Would be good to hire a teacher and share between a few family's.

 

A relative who is a retired elementary school teacher told me in the 2008 time frame that “the language of instruction in our public schools is English”. Maybe that was the way it was supposed to be but I heard even then that this rule was not always enforced. Today I suspect it is not even a rule anymore, given the penchant to favor local native culture and language.

Be that as it may, the people are not doing their kids any favors in suppressing English;

1) it is incorrect to associate it it with a colonial mentality because English is international, not the “American” language where many languages are spoken including the one from England, Spanish being a close number 2 followed by a host of others and Tagalog and Cebuano themselves are not rare.

2) denying kids fluency in the international language just sets them back from kids in other countries who must learn it, even in China. It is a large price to pay to free one’s mindset of a perceived colonial mentality, which it is not; it is an international mentality and that is a good thing.


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The private schools that import foreign teachers must pay salaries competitive to first world countries.

I imagine that the tuition for one of these schools is about 20K php per month. Parents can pay for a local teacher to individually teach one child using curriculum from their home country for about the same cost.

Two children and the parents are actually saving money by hiring a personal teacher.