[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[wa2egp at att.net]

> Schools are so hamstrung by "standards" that the children are getting
> no real education, just being spoon-fed the answers to tests.  It's
> pathetic and makes me fear for the future.  One of my good college
> friends (a history & classics geek, on top of an IT geek) has been
> teaching his son, who's 8, iirc, Greek and Latin.  His son is gobbling
> up pretty much every piece of info put in front of him by his dad.  He
> loves it, so he doesn't even think it's hard.
> 
> Like I said, my kids aren't going to public school.  NCLB just put the
> headstone at that grave.
> 
> =Nadine=

That is the age to grab them.  Once they hit "middle school" that's it.
Very hard to get them into something new.

NCLB stands for several things.....every child left behind and no
teacher left standing.  :)

Bob