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Have you ever considered your children going to girls military schools? Such option may not be the primary choice especially when your child is a girl. But if you look beyond the feminine side of your daughter, things are really going to be different when she, from a dependent, immature, and irresponsible girl, grows up to be a matured and independent woman.

Your daughter must have been used to doing things yours or her way. She must have been growing up to be given with what she wanted, probably became spoiled. When she get to a military school, surely, she will have a different life.

If your daughter is used to become lazy and happy-go-lucky, in a military school, such attitude is not tolerable. She will have no room for idleness. The school will really push her to her limitations and release the kind of accountable and academically inclined attitude. Besides, with the kind of training and teaching she will encounter inside the school, she will be free from any drug or gang temptations, promiscuous behaviors, and extreme peer pressures. In fact, with the kind of life she will live as she stays inside the campus, she will become academically excellent.

Your daughter must have had a potential of an excellent leader and become a successful person in the future. With the proper training and development she will encounter in our military school, such potential will surely get untapped. Each lesson and activity she will live out from day to day is a stepping stone towards her personal success; thus become a better person. Many people have posted their testimonials and praise reports as to how they used to become too passive, dependent, and mischievous. But when they decided to go to military schools, especially those who had gone to military schools for boys in Texas, their old and rotten attitude melted and they developed a kind of attitude they and their parents will certainly be proud of.

So don’t hesitate to let your daughter—or even your son if you have one—to enrol to a military school. Look for options and various selections in our site if you are interested.

Military schools are honestly the best place for a student would take especially when they aim excellence and responsibility development. Why? It’s because of these six basic facts. Enjoy!

Fact #1: There are only a few schools

According to About.com, there are approximately 45 military schools in the United States. Compared to the other number of schools in the US, there are only a few percentages for these military schools. Most are actually elementary military school that operates on grade 9 to 12. Some are junior high. As for others, there are also residential schools considered as military school.

Fact #2: Military schools implement discipline

Discipline is actually the most core value among military, and this is actually the first word we could think of when it comes to these schools. Yes, it’s discipline because this moral creates order, and order creates results. When a person is disciplined, it is expected that his life will be transformed.

Fact #3: They build character

One of the distinctive traits a military school possesses is that it really builds character. Some schools may teach their students the academic traits only, but a military school will always equip the students not just their minds but also their hearts and character as well.

Fact #4: They are selective

The truth is, not everybody can get to a military school. These institutions have their own individual admission requirements. Usually, the school is looking for youngsters who want to succeed in life.

Fact #5: Their graduates are distinctive

Since the school has extremely high standards, it is an expectation that their graduates are distinguished as well. Their training is honestly not that easy, that’s why when they graduate, and they graduate to be completely equipped with knowledge, maturity, and responsibility.

Fact #6: They develop leaders

“Developing leaders is at the core of a military schools philosophy”. Their role of training students has been their objective from the beginning. Moreover, they recognize the potential of each of their students who particularly have leadership skills; therefore they will try with all their methods into unfolding the latent a person can possess.

Some 45 per cent of schools inspected by Ofsted in the last eight months were ranked no better than “satisfactory”, it was disclosed.

More than one-in-20 primary or secondary schools were declared inadequate – the watchdog’s lowest possible rating.

Ofsted insisted the figures were skewed by a new hard-line inspection regime – implemented for the first time in 2009 – which focuses more attention on weak schools and places a greater emphasis on classroom teaching and pupils’ results.

But the disclosure will fuel fresh fears that school standards are still not good enough after 13 years of a Labour government.

It cames as Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, was due to use a speech in Birmingham on Thursday to criticise the “low expectations culture” in some schools.

He will say that Britain risks losing ground to rapidly-developing economies in Asia unless the pace of improvement in the education system is accelerated.

In an attempt to wipe out failing schools, the Coalition will set a tough new exam target for every state secondary to meet by 2015. Within four years, all schools should ensure at least half of pupils finish compulsory education with five A* to C grade GCSEs, including the key subjects of English and maths.

Currently, almost a third of England 3,100 secondary schools fall below the benchmark. They could be closed or turned into independent academies under the leadership of a third-party sponsor if they fail to improve.

But Christine Gilbert, Ofsted’s chief inspector, suggested many were making good progress.

“Ofsted’s current school inspection arrangements set out to be more challenging to schools, so it is encouraging to see 54 per cent were judged good or outstanding,” she said. “Greater involvement of head teachers and senior staff in the inspection process is helping schools better understand areas for development and action.”

Ofsted’s latest figures chart standards at schools inspected between September 2010 and April this year – the autumn and spring terms.

According to figures, 39 per cent of schools were satisfactory and six per cent were inadequate – the bottom two rankings on a four-point scale.

Some 44 per cent of schools were good and 10 per cent were outstanding.

Comparable figures from last year showed 13 per cent of schools were outstanding, 43 per cent were good, 37 per cent were satisfactory and eight per cent were inadequate.

In 2008/9 – before Ofsted’s tough inspection regime was introduced – just 32 per cent of schools were placed in the bottom two categories compared with 45 per cent currently.

As many as 100 state schools are to be constructed under PFI because of a lack of spare cash during the public spending squeeze.

It is believed the move will allow ministers to make scarce resources available for flagship programmes such as the expansion of parent-run “free schools”.

But the move was criticised by teachers who said it would prove hugely expensive in the long-term and limit heads’ powers to run their own schools.

It also risks leaving the Government open to claims of hypocrisy after the Tories branded PFI a “totally discredited” system while in Opposition.

Under PFIs, companies are brought in to fund and build public services such as hospitals and schools. The taxpayer avoids upfront costs but is locked into expensive long-term repayment deals.

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Companies can often charge huge mark-ups for basic maintenance and councils face shelling out millions in compensation if schools close before the contract expires.

Last year, the Department for Education’s budget for school buildings was slashed by 60 per cent in the comprehensive spending review.

The Government also axed Labour’s £55bn programme to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England, although a small number of construction projects will still go ahead.

According to reports, the Treasury is now considering using PFI to complete the first 100 of these new schools.

“There is a massive need for capital investment at the moment, and if 100 schools can be built using PFI then you are creating additional money – freeing up resources – to fund free schools,” a source told the Times Educational Supplement.

But teachers criticised the use of PFI. Under the system, schools remain in private hands and heads often have to pay charges to use buildings at the evening and weekends.

Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: “A lot of PFI schools left massive bills for schools and local authorities. Although it avoids the need to put money up front, in the long term this system is far more expensive.”

Earlier this year, it emerged that a PFI school that was opened to great fanfare in 2009 by Ed Balls, the former Labour education secretary, is to close this summer.

The school – Christ the King in Huyton, Merseyside – cost £24m to build and the local taxpayer is likely to spend the next 23 years paying off the debt.

A Treasury spokesman: “HM Treasury has changed the rules for PFIs. No decision on funding has been made in this case.”

The Education Secretary told them to introduce super-sized classes, drop the traditional curriculum and introduce flexible timetables to make sure children remain in school.

In a letter to schools, he insisted industrial action over proposed pensions reforms were unjustified and would jeopardise pupils’ education.

Mr Gove said he was “particularly concerned” that school closures would affect working families and single parents.

It is believed many mothers and fathers will be forced to pay for child care or take the day off work to look after children locked out of school.

The intervention comes just a week before some 300,000 teachers walk-out of schools across England and Wales over changes to their retirement fund.

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Members of two unions – the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the National Union of Teachers – claim planned reforms will leave them paying more every month, working longer and receiving less when they retire.

It is expected that the walk-out on Thursday, June 30, will lead to the closure or partial closure of almost every state school. Many private schools will also be affected.

In a letter to heads and governors on Thursday, Mr Gove said: “The Government’s proposals on pensions are currently the subject of continuing discussion with national trade unions, including teaching unions.

“Against this background, the Government’s view is that industrial action, with the attendant risk of disruption to pupils’ education and family life, is not justified.

“In the current situation both the public and parents will expect all of us to put the interests of pupils first.

“My view is that we all have a strong moral duty to pupils and parents to keep schools open, and the Government wants to help you achieve that.”

Mr Gove tells heads to be more “flexible” to make sure lessons continue, despite the possible loss of large numbers of teachers for the day.

He said schools could drop the National Curriculum and open later or close earlier to make the best use of available staff.

Mr Gove also pointed out that there was “no maximum” class sizes for most pupil age groups, suggesting heads could merge lessons for the day. By law, infant classes must be limited to 30 pupils but he said schools could get around this by drafting in teaching assistants and senior management.

However, the letter prompted outrage among head teachers’ leaders.

Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents secondary heads, said: “The solution is for the Government to avert this dispute by seeking an urgent resolution to the current impasse rather than sending unnecessary and unhelpful exhortations of the kind received by head teachers.”

The row came as six unions won the right to legally challenge the Government’s decision to change the way pensions are calculated.

Organisations including Unite and Unison have been granted a judicial review in October of the Coalition’s move to link pensions to a lower inflation rate – from the Retail Price Index to Consumer Price Index.