A school with 7 students: America is witnessing a ‘microschools’ boom – Times of India
ATLANTA: When Nathanael was in kindergarten, he told his mother, Diana Lopez, that he did not want to return to school - ever. His teacher yelled at him, he said. And when Lopez picked him up from school, he would often immediately start to cry. Nathanael has autism, and in a busy classroom of 25 children, the teacher seemed to have few strategies for working with him, Lopez recalled.This year at a new school, Nathanael, 7, was happier. He shared a teacher with only six other students - not in one classroom, but in the entire school.Nathanael attended a microschool, an increasingly popular type of super-small, largely unregulated private school, often serving fewer students than are enrolled in a single classroom at a traditional school. The programmes are benefitting from two trends: S...