okay
okay uh so what do you think about the school system
well i think they're they're having a lot of trouble right now i know my son goes to a private school but uh
i think they're big city public schools by definition are having a a tough time right now just from uh probably from budget cuts and and everything else going on
uh why why did you choose a private school
well i had one that was needed to be able to be moved along
at a at a pace a little faster than he was gonna be able to moved be moved in public school so he's he has been going to private since kindergarten so
public school
oh has he and how does he like it
oh he's loved it he's a senior in high school this year so he's yeah he's done it the whole twelve and a so many years and it's been uh it's been really good for him
so he's been there all time
how big of a school is it
uh overall on campus about twelve hundred but in the upper school upper four grades uh about four hundred and something so it's maybe a hundred per grade
a hundred per grade that's a good size
yeah it really is
kind of gives them the you know like get a little leery of the real small ones that they don't get much interaction with kids but uh
yeah that was we were kind of looking for one that would be a mixture and
so they don't that's good
he's done he's done really well and just he was just
ahead at an early age and i didn't feel like uh in what was available particularly in the first three grades
um-hum
and even in the fourth grade when they started what they called reach was still a pull out one day program
huh
and i just didn't think that was gonna get it i thought he needed to be exposed to a situation where he could push ahead uh everyday
right
but yet still be with his peers age wise
still enjoy the right um one thing i think i've noticed is uh my my oldest is in kindergarten so i'm in a little different ballgame i'm just starting i
you're just getting started
but uh seems to me that uh kids these days uh
can really get away with murder and the teachers don't have as much aren't respected as much and uh they have to be some careful of the things they do and say
yeah i know that's that's a big problem
and uh makes me a little nervous that uh students don't seem to show that respect and
we wouldn't have thought of crossing a teacher when we were in school wouldn't have thought of it and you know and they'll stand there now with them toe to toe and
no heavens no
no you wouldn't
and uh the things they can say and do to a teacher and they do from what i understand
uh i think that's wrong
i think we need to
get back to the show some respect and course i guess the teacher used to warrant that but
yeah but a lot of times it's not being taught in the home anymore like it used to be basic respect for elders and adults particularly in in responsible positions have not uh
right
for other people and
i don't think it's had that basic upbringing in a lot of cases and so then you wind up with little brats on your hands
well how do you think that's happened you think our society's just uh stopped talking out or this uh generation's just kind of changed a little bit uh
i guess i
well the world changes so i mean obviously kids are not the same now as they used to be i mean they're exposed to a whole lot more things they have a whole lot more
right
uh variety of things that they're that they see and do at an earlier age so life is not maybe as simple as it was at one time but
but still i think it goes back to a commitment
by the parents to to teach uh basic values and basic uh
respectful of uh respectfulness of authority
right
and i just don't think that this doesn't always get emphasized anymore uh
that just isn't coming through is it
no i mean i remember uh
well it was a big thing when they let girls wear Levi's we used to have to wear dresses and then you had to uh go to dresses they had to be a pantsuit and it was polyester and it had to be matching and
yeah had to wear dresses didn't you
and when it was skirts it was like get down on the floor and we hold the ruler up here and it's no more than so many inches above the knee because it was mini skirt time back there at one time
yes exactly
yes
yes so it's really changed it's uh
really kind of
gone the rounds so i think think that maybe that's effected it to some degree they say you kind of act how you're dressed a little bit so i
yeah i think that probably does have have something to do with it that it's also
do uh does does this school your son goes to do they uh required required to wear a uniform or
no they do not do uniforms although one's where he was between like second and eighth grade did
uh-huh yeah there are quite a few of your schools
