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School Uniforms, No More Summer Vacation, And An Extra Year Of High School
The things no kid wants are sometimes what every kid needs
My sons are both married, one with a one year-old child, and the other with a pregnant wife. Both work full time with benefits and are in the process of buying homes of their own. It looks like they’re well on their way to achieving the American Dream, right?
Actually, that’s not their goal.
Both of them intend for their children to attend K-12 school in the Philippines. My oldest son attended K-12 schools here in America and attended college in the Philippines, while my youngest attended his last two years of high school there. And both feel that even with the rampant poverty and pollution and substandard facilities, schools in the Philippines are much better for personal development and growth than schools here in America.
Imagine your kids attending schools where there are much fewer fights, much less drug use, and absolutely ZERO guns. Imagine never ever having to worry about there being an active shooter at your kid’s school. My youngest son likes to tell the story about how he brought a penknife — a penknife — to his school there to show to the other students, and all of a sudden the other kids clustered around him, rebuking and berating him…
