by Jerry Mintz
How do you know that it is time to look for another educational approach for your child? Here are some of the signs:
1. Does your child say he or she hates school?
2. Does your child find it difficult to look an adult in the eye, or to interact with children younger or older than they are?
3. Does your child seem fixated on designer labels and trendy clothes for school?
4. Does your child come from school tired and cranky?
5. Do your children come home complaining about conflicts that they’ve had in school and unfair situations that they have been exposed to?
6. Has your child lost interest in creative expression through art, music, and dance?
7. Has your child stopped reading for fun, or reading or writing for pleasure? Are your children doing just the minimum for homework and going off for some escapist activity?
8. Does your child procrastinate until the last minute to do homework?
9. Does your child come home talking about anything exciting that happened in school that day?
10. Did the school nurse of guidance counselor suggest that your child has some strange three lettered disease, like ADD, and that they should now be given Ritalin or some other drug?
