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Flo · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 112

Ms. Atondo's experience of kids getting pushed through grades just to secure tuition money for the next semester is accurate from what I have seen. I had middle school kids who had been in a the same bilingual colegio since pre-school and yet they couldn't ask me in English if they could have permission to use the bathroom. If a teacher failed a student the teacher was punished and forced to tutor the student for two weeks during the summer without additional pay. Needless to say, everyone passed.

As bad as some public schools in the states are, in my experience, they are better than private schools in Mexico. I would never enroll my kids in Mexican schools.

Also, there are montessori schools in Mexico. I had several students who had attended them. They had absolutely no skills to succede in the traditional/real world setting nor could they control themselves in the classroom. I would recommend private colegios to Montessori.

Just my 2 cents.
Flo

saraswati · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 200

In my opinion, the teachers and curriculum are the deciding factors rather than "public," "private," or "Montessori." My son has been in four schools since kindergarten. Each time I moved him was because I wasn't convinced with the teacher's capabilities and my son seemed to be floundering. (Homeschooling isn't an option since I have to work.) Right now he's in a Montessori school and I'm very happy with the program. Their focus is global. Students are required to investigate and present. My son's giving a presentation about the United Nations and his best friend is giving one on NGOs. I'm very happy with the school. My only advice is to "shop around." Ask about everything you consider important.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

MELEE · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:29 pm Post subject:

In my small city, the public schools are considered more prestigous than the private ones. Especially at the prepa level, where the private prepas are mostly full of students who were kicked out of one of the public ones. The only exception is a private catholic colegio where the teachers are all nuns. I would consider sending my girls there in the future, mainly because lots of the other children of university professors go there and their parents are from other parts of Mexico and they travel and have a wider prespective of the world than the children in the other schools.