Posted on 08/09/2022 7:22:37 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
(BACKGROUND: When a local group wanted to start a new school some years back, they asked me to write a proposal. Here is that proposal, which anyone may use for ideas and inspiration.)
A new private school is coming to your neighborhood. You can be involved with the school in several ways— parent of a student, investor, donor, volunteer, and community support. To create something we can all be proud of, that's the goal.
AlphaAcademy serves boys and girls in Grades K-9. The overarching concern is preparing students for success throughout life. The school favors a traditional curriculum and classical methods but energized by an important modern concept: education should be fun.
K-12 education is viewed as a systematic process. Children must master the basics, which in turn become the foundation for wider, deeper study. Finally all students can become fully educated citizens.
The school places great value on safety and serenity. The Greek concept of striving for excellence in all things (Arête) is an inspiration.
The central problem in American K-12 is that experts demoted academic achievement in order to pursue social engineering. Public schools are often handicapped by inferior methods such as Common Core, Constructivism, Sight-words, and a casual acceptance of mediocrity. Behold the “dumbing down of America.”
The proper goal of a school system is to lift every child to each one’s potential. Today, our country is sub-educating millions of children, even though we can easily teach 99% of children to read, do arithmetic, find Antarctica on a globe, and understand all those thousands of elementary things that define our civilization.
School is not only about learning. It's also about character. We encourage honesty, honor, and self-discipline. Parents are expected to be involved with their child’s development and with the life of the school generally.
Please call for more information….
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ADDENDUM: This proposal is simply an amalgam of my top dozen favorite ideas. The main thing is to reflect on what is emphatically NOT in this proposal: no sight words; no common core anything; no cooperative learning; no constructivism; no learning styles; no social emotive learning; no CRT; no hostility to phonics; no contempt for direct instruction; and no opposition to memorization and the acquisition of fundamental knowledge. The Education Establishment plays a destructive game where they concoct bad ideas and pull everybody into discussing the merits of the bad ideas. Warning: there are no merits. The road to improvement is to eliminate entirely all the bad ideas that have been introduced in the last 75 years. Get back to what has always worked. You will find these traditional ideals throughout the best private schools.
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Damn right we are!!! They’re turning our kids into gender bending freaks.
The present model of public schools may have made sense in the late 19th century. We have moved beyond that.
And the bloated public sector unions and government grifters have taken control of public schools, which has further cemented them in an un-reformable model
“Quality” is one word that should NEVER be mentioned in the same sentence with GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.
When the Carter administration created the Department of Education plenty of people knew that centralized control in D.C. would lead to a far worse system than local control of education. And here it is in all of its glory.
Ronald Reagan ran on a promise to abolish the Department of Education. He didn’t, of course, and while I haven’t checked to be sure I suspect that it was due to a lack of cooperation by the Republicans in Congress.
Bush junior had a Republican Congress and he could have abolished the Ed Dept. Of course he also could have deported illegals instead of trying to give them amnesty. Liberal GOPers are like that.
THEY ALL NEED TO BE ENDED.
Its over.
Is there any ‘quality’ left to be concerned about? /sarc
I am not “concerned.” I am many years past school. My children went to parochial school. I assume the public schools cannot be reformed because the federal money cannot be removed from the system and the teachers’ unions cannot be dissolved. My grandchildren are home schooled and at age ten and eight already know more real history than public school kids will learn in their school careers. Public schools are beyond redemption and people who actually care for their children’s future have already removed their children from the system. It is not like it is all secret what the Public schools are doing. Everyone knows. Those who keep their children in them either approve or do not care about their children.
Precisely why we home schooled
And this can actually be done at a low cost. Homeschoolers and classical Christian schools ( 2 day university model, Classical Conversations etc) can do this very affordably.
No... I think they should be permanently shuttered! They are the waiting room of H3ll!
Exactly. My granddaughter is now a 2nd gen homescooler.
Yes, they are. Many children were under Obama’s NAMBLA education czar. Then our USA history was also being trashed. Almost all of the confederate statues were destroyed. These kids and even their parents live on cell phones. I look back to 1980 when the Patel family from India took over USA motels and later convenience stores. Look at all the Muslims that came here in 1991 or so. Add all those Obama and Biden let into OUR USA.
I look back to 1980 when the Patel family from India took over USA motels and later convenience stores. Look at all the Muslims that came here in 1991 or so. Add all those Obama and Biden let into OUR USA.
It must be getting late, because I'm not seeing what this has to do with public schools. I guarantee the left would still be pushing this 57 genders stuff on kids even if they were all lily white.
I just stated Obama’s education Czar and his NAMBLA.
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Am I concerned about the quality of schools?
You betcha!
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