Welcome families and friends of El Rio Charter School.
Our vision is to found a Kindergarten through 5th grade public charter school, opening in 2013, which brings the advantages of a Waldorf style education to Northeast Los Angeles.
We are calling for participants willing to strategize, collaborate and give skills and time to help us
make it happen.

Another ‘inconvenient truth’

Posted: April 17th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Child mental health, Education Policy, Movies!, Parenting | No Comments »

Go the the website for the “Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture”. Watch the three-minute trailer.  Look for a screening near you.  Heck, organize a screening. It’s a documentary film by a parent, Vicki Abeles, for parents, educators and anyone with an empathetic heart about the staggering increases in homework kids get and the resulting sleep deprivation, sedentary lifestyle and depression – even suicide – among kids who pick up on the pressure to ‘excel’, ‘succeed’, ‘achieve’ and ‘win’. This is the other side of the ‘achievement gap’.  This is the ‘achievement trap’.

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