What are the best year round ballet schools with academics as a part of them in the world and the United States?
I know you have asked this before regarding the best ballet schools. However as you added academics to this I didn't answer as most all schools in the USA do not give you academic classes but some make arrangements with academic schools in the area and others leave you on your own. It is not a question of finding the best academics in the USA it is more about finding ANY academics. For example students at SAB in NYC offen go to PPAS which is a school with so-so academics for professional kids who work on stage, screen or take dance full time. They might also go to LaGuardia High school which has excellent academic and makes arraignments on class schedule for the SAB kids. This is next to impossible in year 11/12 but has been done. JKO students in NYC start their classes time wise directly after their academic classes are over in a public school. At the very top level this changes and many students cram extra classes/ credits in so they can graduate high school early to dance in the ballet at 16. Much of this is done online. You have the Harid Conservatory in Florida which makes arraignments with the local high school which I have no clue what their academics are like. Some great dancers have come out of there. In the states it is a struggle to get both good training and top academics. As dancers tend to be very self disciplined they find a way. In The UK they incorporate both academic and dance training together.
What is it like to transfer schools in your senior year of high school?
I believe there are many factors involved which determine whether the experience will be positive or negative. My parents moved from Massachusetts to North Carolina the summer of 1989 right as I was about to enter my senior year in high school. I had lived in the same suburban town 20 minutes south of Boston my entire life. I had been enrolled in the same school district since kindergarten & had known every one of my peers since that time. I was very active in school activities including cheerleading and being elected Vice President of my junior class. Transferring from a school where my graduating class had less than 100 students to a high school with a graduating class of 300 in a city 14 hours away that I had never even heard of was devastating. The third day of school I developed flu like symptoms which doctors informed my parents was attributed to a psychosomatic condition. Basically I was so miserable & stressed my mind was making my body physically sick. I plotted to get on a plane to go home to Ma during the Christmas break & never step foot in NC again. I resented both of my parents for the move for some time. They moved by choice - not because one of them had received a job offer too good to refuse. The timing to me was extremely selfish - they couldn't wait ONE more year for me to graduate? I loathed school my senior year & would skip every chance I got. At 44 I'm over it but there was a time where I did feel robbed of the traditions & rites of passage a high school senior's year brings. My mother told me years ago she regretted the decision to move at that time & if she could go back to 1989 she wouldn't have encouraged the move just before my senior year. In today's economy there are challenges that relocating can alleviate. However if a child is happy & adjusted a move right before or during the senior year is cruel.
My sons guitar was stolen from the music class at school. What should I do?
First and foremost, file a police report. You will need that in order to move forward with any action. The next issue is, how much is it worth? Is it a relatively inexpensive guitar ($100 - $200)? Or is it fairly expensive ($500 - $2000+)? If you have renter's or home owner's insurance, those policies will sometimes cover the theft of property even when it is somewhere else. Check with your insurance company. If it is an inexpensive guitar, then it will likely be less than your deductible. Depending upon the laws of your state, the school may still be liable for the theft. An unattended vehicle is one thing, but a locked room in a building is another matter entirely. The fact that you were given assurances by a representative of that institution may also put them on the hook for the loss. So, if you don't have insurance to cover it, talk to the principal and tell him that you were assured the instrument would be secure and that you expect to be compensated for the loss (be polite, of course). See what his reaction is. If he tells you they are not responsible, then you have a couple of choices. If it is an inexpensive guitar, then it's probably not worth your time to pursue any further. If the guitar is $1000 or less, you could file a suit in small claims court. You go down to the local court house, tell them you want to file a small claims case, then they will direct you where to go. Fill out some forms and pay a small fee, then you need to serve the school with a notice. In small claims court, there are no lawyers. You meet with a representative of the school and tell your story to the judge (and have the police report as evidence). They school will tell their story and then the judge will decide the outcome. If it is more expensive, you may want to consult with an attorney. Anyway, those are the things I would do. I hope this is of some assistance. Good luck! Please note: I am not an attorney, nor do I play one on TV. This advice is based on my own life experience as a man in his 40s and a father of six children (including two who play guitar).
What is Home-schooling?
Q. What is it? A. It's being educated outside of the school system. It's when your parents take on responsibility for organising, assessing, implementing and paying for your education. It's more commonly called 'home education' in the UK. Take a look at Ealing's own guidelines on things to consider when deciding if homeschooling/home education is the right choice for you (and your parents!): http://www.ealing.gov.uk/ealing3/export/... Q. How do you get taught? A. In a myriad of ways. Just about any way you can think of and then some. You can teach yourself or find an expert to teach you or organise an apprenticeship for yourself or sign up for individual courses or allow learning to take place naturally and informally as part of your everyday life. Living in Ealing you should also check out http://www.freetoeducate.com/index-homes... . Q. Does anyone come and teach you? A.Not usually. It would soon become prohibitively expensive to go down that track for too many of your 'lessons'. You can however enroll in a correspondence school or online school if you (or your parents) want an education at home that still resembles the sort of education that you'd get from the school system. Q. How can you apply? Talk to your parent(s). The only person you apply to is Mum (or Dad). They're the ones who're legally responsible for deciding how, where, when and in what you're educated. Q. And how much does it cost? That depends. Correspondence schools typically cost between £150 and £500 per subject. Internet-based schools cost around £2,000 per year. Adopting a DIY approach to your home education costs as much or as little as you want to spend. It can be done fairly cheaply using the library, op shops, community groups, organisations and facilities, and the internet. On the other hand it can easily run to thousands if you're not careful. Plenty of families who're living on £12,000 a year or less manage to home educate very successfully, as do families on benefits and single parents. Anyway, for more information and advice about home education (home ed) in England: Education Otherwise @ http://www.education-otherwise.org/ The Home Education UK Website @ http://www.home-education.org.uk/ Home Education Info. @ http://home-ed.info/
How does home-schooling work?
I'm currently going to a public high school and I don't like the system very much at all. This resulted in me looking for other options, and one I stumbled upon was home-schooling. I would like to know what is necessary to partake in home-schooling, what it entails, and how effective it is. Some more specific questions- Can anyone be home schooled? Do you need to have special conditions to become eligible? Can anyone home school a teenager? Can a tutor? Can a parent? Can I homeschool myself? Is there a definite curriculum for home-schooling? Do I have to take a certain english class or science class on a particular year? Can I plan out the lesson myself? How does gym work? Is it impossible to get accepted into a good college if you were home-schooled? Can I take subjects not available at my local school? How does the scheduling work? Can I choose to work a 4 day week, but not have summer break? Can I choose when to start and when to finish? How does homework work? How does grading work? Any answers to any of the above questions will be very helpful. Thank you in advance for your time, and as the time of this writing is near december 25th, happy holidays to all!
Home schooling curriculum?
What is the best home schooling curriculum? My daughters are still baby's but I like to plan ahead. I'm trying to convince my husband to let me home school them when they're old enough and I'm going to need a real concrete plan in order to convince him.
Can you tell me a little bit 'bout educational system in America?What I need to do to become a good student?
Not all US high schools are as bad as that other poster made them out to be. I should know, I went to one. The problem most of the bad schools have isthat they are filled with stupid poor people. Avoid inner city schools. In general what you want to do to be a good student is just make the teachers think you are trying hard. If you do that they will grade you easier and give you the benfit of the doubt in most circumstances. Yes, you shoucl participate in extracurricular activities. They look good on applications and they keep you busy so you dont fall in with a crowd of drug addict losers.
What would you change about the school system if you were the President?
Everything. I would bring it back to the way it was in 1959, I would bring back more vocational “shop” courses for those who will be working with their hands, and more “commercial” courses for office work including all manner of computer office applications and bookkeeping courses. Academic courses for those with high aptitude in mathematics, science and engineering. I would re-emphasize that the purpose of High School is to produce workers who are prepared to go to work right after graduation. College admissions would be tightened demanding higher IQs, greater SAT scores, and evidence of superior research skills of all kinds. Eighty percent of most students would be encouraged to go straight to work after graduation, with perhaps 20% going on to academic colleges and universities. For most young people college has been a scam perpetrated by the Left to create teaching jobs for left wing pseudo-academics who support the Democratic party.