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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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For all of you sold on ss education, what are the benefits in your opinion?
15 replies [ Reply | Watch | MoreFor K-8, an all male atmosphere is more relaxed and flexible for ds's. They're allowed to move around more. Male sense of humor is shared and accepted. Assigned reading and books purchased by school library are geared to their interests. They're free to risk making fools of themselves, like flubbing campaign speeches from nerves, and receive rousing applause for showing courage. For 7th and 8th graders, the absence of girls allows ds's to relax about how they look and act at school. The list goes on. We've lived in several cities and applied to ss schools only.
[ Reply | More ]I attended a tt ss and had a great experience. girls were editors of newspaper & yearbook, prez of student body, and had unlimited opportunities for leadership. we were focused on learning without distraction. We also had ample opportunities to interact with our brother school and boys in general so we weren't uncomfy around boys. I love dit an I was a boy-crazy teen, but for me school was for learning. All that being said, I'm not sure I'd make the same choice for my dd. But she's only 2, so I'm not there yet.
[ Reply | More ]Nothing against the ss schools but at the tt coed school I went to (25 years ago mind you), the editor of the paper and yearbook was usually female as was the student body president half the time. And it certainly never felt like the girls were not comfortable around boys. So, I kind of object to the generality -- that said, I certainly think there may be a type of girl that would thrive in ss and would be open to any arguments about how different genders learn differently, etc. But I always found the whole leadership, confidence, distraction thing more rhetoric than anything else.
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