"Beware of the Fish" by Gordan Korman: A Review ’Beware The Fish’ is one of the funniest books I have ever read in my life. It is about two boys named Bruno and Boots who go to a boarding school called ’Macdonald Hall’. Their headmaster is a grim man named Mr. Sturgeon(a.k.a ’The Fish’. A sturgeon is a kind of fish.) It all started when Elmer Drimsdale‚ school genius invented somethingthat is sort of like a television broadcaster. He didn’t know it really worked!!!! When Bruno and Boots found
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have been home schooled are more innocent and naïve‚ and emerging as an adult into a ruthless society can see them taken advantage of‚ if proper guidance is not undertaken. Statistics and standardized test scores prove that home schooled students are in general‚ better educated than their public schooled peers. There are many false assumptions about how home schooling works such as : only certain families and religious home school; All research indicates that not only are home schooled students generally
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if not more‚ beneficial. Home schooling parents have many different reasons for choosing to home school their children. According to the Parent-NHES:1999 (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinf o.asp?pubid=2001033)‚ almost 50 percent of the home schooled students whose parents were surveyed said that the reason for choosing to home school their children was because their child would have a better education at home. Most children would be able to learn better at home because they are able to learn
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little to do with the realities of homeschooling for most families today‚ and are rarely backed by factual data. The average home-schooled student scored “81 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) than did the general population in 2000”. (Winters) At the National Spelling Bee in 2000‚ the top three winners were home-schooled. Studies show that‚ “home-schooled children also tend to score higher on basic skills testing than do public school children”. (Winters) According to the Wall Street
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be home schooled instead of being sent to traditional schools. This is because students who are home schooled may not get the education that students who are sent to traditional schools get; home schooled students may not be able to keep up with the information being learned in traditional schools. Not learning the right information and not being able to keep up with traditional schools means that the home schooled students may not get into a good college‚ or get a job. Also‚ home schooled students
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Children There is a huge trend in education that has many parents pulling their kids out of public schools and beginning a home school routine. That trend is higher ACT scores and GPA’s for home schooled children. Since 1999 there has been a 75% increase in the number of children home schooled‚ bringing the new estimate to over 2.04 million. (Burgess‚ 2013) When asked why they chose to home school their children‚ the majority of parents said that it was due to the current conditions in our public
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very harmful to the child. Being home schooled tends to hurt ones social development‚ because they are able to hide from the chaos‚ pressures‚ and stress of life. By not being in a public school‚ they are separated from society and their peers. Being in public school‚ you have a chance of more opportunities‚ such as riding the school bus. My three year old daughter is in preschool‚ and riding the bus is one thing she looks forward to every day. Being home schooled means you are always stuck at home
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peaceful and love everyone”. This statement is so multicultural that it touches the hearts of almost everyone who hears and that’s why it’s so awesome. She then goes on to tell about why the Taliban are so afraid of education and how a boy in her schooled answered why they were “they are afraid of this book because they do not know what is written in it”. She then goes on to explain that the Taliban is even ignoring what their very own book‚ that they use to justify their own actions‚ says about
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due to my interest in potentially becoming a teacher. The debate about home-schooled students versus those who are schooled through public education has always interested me‚ and I wanted to discover more tangible information on the topic through research. I know that the debate over resources from public school districts being given to home school families is a heated one; I also know that the effectiveness of being schooled at home is always being analyzed. My goal is to come to a conclusion on the
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written by Tina Fey‚ the actor Lindsay Lohan plays the role of a girl named Cady Heron who has never known what high school truly meant because her parents were zoologists. She lived her first fifteen years in the African jungle in which she was home-schooled. She lived her entire life with only her parents and the animals of the wilderness‚ knowing all of the rules of survival. However‚ when she moves out of Africa‚ she has to learn the rules of high school‚ a jungle itself. She instantly makes friends
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