My Dream School

Hello educators 👋🏾. I've had this idea for a school that helps kids grow healthily for about 4 years now. I wanted to see if my thoughts make sense to others who work in that field because while I do have a part-time job teaching kids to code, I'm not getting an actual degree in education or children's studies or anything like that. The first thing I want is for it to be a boarding and day school, and make it a university town, but for elementary to high schoolers. My plan will probably cost outrageous amounts of money just for that alone, so I'm still stuck on whether the first branch should be opened back in Nigeria, or here in Canada. Getting the land would be much easier in Nigeria, but then there might be a problem with funding because I want to make it financially accessible. That would mean providing financial aid to those who get through the admissions process but can't afford it. The closest thing Nigeria has to free education is its public schools, but they aren't particularly good, to be honest. Private schools are better but can't compete with the average Canadian public school. At least infrastructure and facility-wise.That's why at least for the curriculum I'm mostly sure of how it should be. A sort of Nigerian-Canadian curriculum. I'm not sure if it's illegal to send kids to school before the age of 4, but we will start education from as young as 2 years old. Kindergarten, nursery 1, nursery 2, then primary 1. k-n2 will be focused on teaching them basic communication, practicing motor skills/writing, social values, and general trivia.

There's obviously a lot more to consider: Elementary, middle and high school curriculum (each have even more ideas), infrastructure, the admissions process, etc. But organizing my thoughts is surprisingly harder than i thought, so maybe i should make an edit to this post later?

Anyway, thoughts? And what do you think is important for establishing a good school?

Submitted May 31, 2023 at 09:06AM by MaybeKindaSortaCrazy https://ift.tt/RftQKVu