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Sound familiar?

Parents (and students):

Having second thoughts about enrolling your child in a progressive middle school or high school? Consider this:

It is interesting to note that for many children, middle school and high school becomes the place where school is no longer enjoyable. It is, of course, at that time that students traditionally have been subject to a shift from student-centered classroom to a teacher-centered, content-driven academic approach.

The result is that school, instead of being a place where students look forward to going each day because it features an exciting atmosphere where learning new things is enjoyable, becomes a chore at best, a problem at worst. At the very age when students most resist compliance and teacher-centered approaches, too many teachers, and, by default, too many schools insist on employing such a format.

That’s from “The 21st Century Classroom” on the Open Education blog. We do our best to avoid that scenario at TCS. Earlier on in the article, there is a comparison between a “The Tradition/Negative Approach” and “The Modern/Positive Approach”. Both probably sound familiar—one from your experience as a child, and the other what your child hopefully experiences as part of the NMY.