Help for Our Kids -- Cutting the Cost of Private Schools
By Joel Turtel (04/22/06)
Parents shouldn’t have to dip into the college fund to pay for private kindergartens, elementary schools, or high schools for their children. Yet many K-12th grade private schools in the United States cost tens of thousands of dollars to attend.
The high tuition costs of private schools puts most medium-income and low-income parents in a difficult position. Most parents may not want to send their children to third-rate failing public schools, but they cannot afford expensive private-school tuition, especially if they plan to pay for their children's college education. Fortunately for many of these parents, there are now other quality, low-cost education options for their children.
For instance, author Joel Turtel talks about Internet private schools in his new book, “Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children.” Turtel says that Internet private schools provide excellent education for K-12th grade kids and charge tuition that in many of these schools is as low as $850 a year.
One example of such excellent low-cost Internet private schools is the Clonlara School. This school serves K-8th grade kids and charges about $850 a year tuition. Children get a thorough education in reading, math, history and many other subjects in the curriculum, and the school assigns a personal teacher to each child.
With all Internet private schools, parents no longer have to worry about the drugs, violence, shocking sex-ed classes, and incompetent academic teaching in government-run public schools. With low-cost Internet private schools, parents can give their children a great education in the safety of their own home.
Many accredited Internet private schools now give a course of study similar to traditional private schools. They take children through a progressive curriculum in math, science, reading and writing, history and many other subjects. This structured, comprehensive program, in effect, gives children a personal teacher and private-school education at home.
Internet private schools can be especially helpful for single working parents or families in which both mother and father work. Also, since Internet-school teachers supervise the child’s education, it’s less likely that parents will have to take time off from work or quit their job to homeschool their kids.
“Public Schools, Public Menace" has an entire section devoted to Internet private schools, as well as other education options for parents. The author lists dozens of Internet private schools with their web sites. Parents can use the book to quickly research these schools, find out if the yearly tuition fits their budget, and if the curriculum and teaching methods look suitable for their child.
Those parents who want a better education and future for their children should seriously consider taking their children out of public school and enrolling their kids in a quality, low-cost Internet private school.
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