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THE PHILADELPHIA PLAN: Common
Sense + New Ideas
EDUCATION -
GET SMART!
We need to educate
the general public, not just students. Widespread public
ignorance of what should be basic knowledge is staggering. We
can run, but we can't hide from catastrophic results of a bad
public school education. That's why Republicans need to work on
improving public education, and not simply promoting "school
choice". Let's support both public and private education!
We support:
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FREE FEDERAL K-COLLEGE PROGRAM: Publicly
available "free" basic education via online K-College curriculums,
lessons, & testing via
U.S. Dept of Education website, so that both the general
public and students can learn more.
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FREE PUBLIC ACCESS:
Public online access to all current school curriculums,
including: text books, work books, plus any and all class
room materials & tests, in order
to see what's going right and fix what's gone wrong.
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SKILLS & JOBS TRAINING: From the primitive (basic) to
high tech skills. Work/study
and apprenticeship programs by local businesses and unions designed to help bring
training and funds
into the student's checking account and help with family
finances.
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STUDENT HEALTH: Great
nutrition, physical fitness, and
military
preparedness.
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STUDENT WELLBEING:
Singing, dancing, sports, & band! School has become a
boring prison for too many children. We need to make it fun
and inspiring... as well as hard work.
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TEACHERS: Ensure that every teacher passes a test to
get the job, has a
good starting salary ($75,000?), and an aid to assist them.
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PARENTS & VOLUNTEERS:
Let the parents
and volunteers back into the classrooms, so that they can
help out and see for
themselves how well their child and teachers are doing.
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SECURITY: Professionally trained "armed security"
and qualified personnel at all schools.
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CELL PHONES: No cell
phones during school day.
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NEW! "Bring Capitalism
Into the Classroom"! The brain-child of
Philadelphian, William Small, this is a pilot-project for
student & parent "performance & attendance" payments. Simply
put, students and their parents will get graduated payments
for attendance and how well students perform on a series of tests
on knowledge and skills; the better the test result, the
higher the payment. This teaches excellence and competition.
Plus, every school could have a school store where items
made by students can be sold to the public, both in person,
online, and at participating stores, museums, and other
entities. There could be auctions, as well. The payment
could be split between the student, their parent(s), and the
school. Anyway, it's an idea whose time has come!
WHAT
CAN YOU DO?
CONTACT your political reps
regarding our "EDUCATION" issues!
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