And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. ↗
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study. ↗
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. ↗
Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children. ↗
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. ↗
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. ↗