Holmes County schools
Interesting bit on the East Holmes school district, from the Wooster Daily Record (see:Â http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/4823850)
What makes the East Holmes District unique is its two-thirds Amish population at each grade level, Treasurer Marsha Clark said.
Because the Amish constituency prefers to keep its children closer to home, “we have more buildings, and we have smaller elementary schools,” Clark said.
East Holmes incurs extra expenses in operating each of the buildings, as well as in maintaining a student/teacher ratio of 15:1, she said, “which is really, really low.”
However, the low ratio is extremely helpful because, historically, “a lot of students come in with English as a second language,” Clark said, although, she clarified, “more and more are coming to school more fluent (in English).”
While most Amish children attend Amish schools, in certain settlements, such as Holmes County, Amish children make up a significant segment of pupils in local public schools.
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Amish Schools and Teaching
I am currently a retired public schoolteacher. I wrote and self published a book about an Amish girl who so despretly wants aclassroom of her own. There is so much to learn about the Amish way of teaching . I would love to be able to write more than one book. But I want to be more in tune with the way things really are with todays Amish Education. If by chance Someone could help me I would be happy to share all of my 32 years of learning ideas with a willing Amish teacher.