Private Education Center

We also use weekends and evenings. Now, since we’re fairly causal learners, we life learn on weekends and evenings as everyone does. It’s just that now these life learning experiences or classes count as part of our curriculum. We consider them to be part of the whole life learning experience that our child enjoys.

We also find excellent and educational care for our children. In our community, there are a number of part time learning programs that children can attend, all geared towards home learners or those who wish to attend school part time. Two mornings a week, my daughter will be attending one of those schools, which is a democratic and unschooling-based environment where she can play and explore her interests.

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Rob Kuznia’s report on local education agencies’ performance on spring 2010 STAR exams showed some marked improvement, with the exception of beleaguered Centinela Valley Union High School District.

The gains were seen especially in our elementary school districts — Hawthorne, Lawndale, Lennox and Wiseburn. They all up ticked several points in English and math scores.

But how did things go in Los Angeles Unified schools, which make up about half of our campuses here in the South Bay?

Pretty decently, it turns out. The district’s analysis showed that nearly all grade levels showed increases on nearly all tests.

The Daily News’ Connie Llanos has a look at the big picture in LAUSD, where officials stressed student improvement despite distressing budget cuts.

LAUSD high schools in the South Bay and the Harbor Area saw an uptick in all areas, with the exception of the percent of students scoring proficient of advanced in Gardena’s history courses, Narbonne in math and science, and Westchester in science.

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Let’s take swimming lessons as a case in point. We are taking swimming lessons for two weeks. Every day at high noon, we go down to the pool that is a five-minute walk from our house to have half an hour of group swimming lessons.

The swimming lessons are going well, for the most part. My daughter isn’t overly fond of the life jacket survival float, but she’s doing well on stroking. When we first started the lessons, she was visiting our own local pool daily and practicing her doggie paddle. She taught herself how to swim across the pool.

She was worried about the swimming lessons, and most of this was because of the diving board. At the end of the lessons, the children all jump into the water, the teacher catches them, and then they jointly swim towards the side.

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Football Fall Camp A reminder to all prospective football players that fall camps begins August 20th, 2010.  All students wanting to play senior football are expected to be in attendance, but students that will be trying out for junior football are encouraged to participate as well.  For more information, check our football web page under athletics.