Saturday, November 19, 2011

How can you get American Standard school in Ireland?

My kids moved here with me and when they went to school they kept complaining about how they know everything in maths and everything else. Is there anyway that they can learn what they need to because when we go back they will be so behind. Please help|||There is an American School in London that teaches by the American curriculum and which might offer boarding facilities. There is also an International School in Dublin, which offers a curriculum designed to be suitable to kids from all corners of the world. Both are private schools so will cost. If you're looking for a state school teaching the American curriculum in Ireland then you're out of luck.





Have you spoken to the school about the possibility of having your children moved up a year? It could even be that, because of when their birthdates fall and the differences between the US and Irish school year, they are in a year below what they would be in the States.





You should also consider that things are taught at different times in Ireland and just because there is one area of maths that they have already been taught in America, doesn't mean the next topic is one they are familiar with. My English cousin, who is the same age as me, learned Pythagoras theory before I did in my Scottish school but we covered Quadratic equations before her school did. It's not that either of us was ahead but we were just learning different topics at different times.

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