I always thought we had good schools here — whats wrong with the Neenah schools that we need a charter school?
Nothing! Neenah has excellent public schools and talented, dedicated teachers. A charter school simply offers a different instructional approach than a traditional classroom. Many children do not learn well, or as well as they could, in a traditional classroom, where most students are doing the same task and studying the same concepts at the same time. Teachers can’t always allow a student to move far beyond the contents of the chapter in the book being studied or the grade level’s standard curriculum. Other students may be swept along faster than they should be to grasp the material to go on to the next unit with everyone else. In the traditional setting, the day is teacher-directed about 80% of the time, with 20% allowed for some activities of choice. By contrast, in Montessori, education is child-directed about 80% of the time, with the 20% of teacher-directed instruction being more tailored to the individual or small groups. If we are to successfully educate every child, we need to
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