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EDUCATION COMMITTEE
We
support and promote:
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Public
access and review of the curriculum to fix what's wrong
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Publicly
available "free" online & successful &
effective K-College curriculums
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Skills
& jobs training from basic to high tech
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Parent
participation & volunteer mentoring
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Work/study
and apprenticeship programs
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Physical fitness and military
preparedness
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School
choice & home schooling
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Increased teachers starting
salaries
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Ensure that every teacher has an
aid to assist them
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Pilot-project
for student/parent performance payments or incentives
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Fun
& sun, songs & dance, & band!
We're promoting successful and enjoyable public schools! Too many
schools are failing students, their parents, and society at
large. We need to turn that around. One of the main causes is,
not about money, but instead that we have a curriculum that is
not teaching the kids correctly. For example, the students are
no longer required to memorize all of their times tables! That's
crazy. We need to teach subjects using methods that are
time-tested and effective. And they also need to be online and
publicly available, so that we all can find out what's going on.
We also need to be teaching life skills and job training, from
the simple to the complex, from knitting to welding to
artificial intelligence. We need prepare our students to be
ready to enter the job market... as well as the military. Too
many of our students are unfit for service, and that's not fair
to them or our country. They need to eat right, get in shape,
and learn. We also need to make school as enjoyable as possible,
and that means every day, taking the time for some singing and
line dancing! Our school should inspire as well as
instruct.
We are also proposing a pilot project for
student/parent performance payments or incentives. This is the
brainchild of
VoteWilliamSmall.com. Most of us
wouldn't go to work without getting paid. It's time to consider
payment for performance with students and their parents. The
idea is not to increase the school budget, but instead
re-allocate funds. Clearly, a lot of money is being wasted on
failed programs. Let's direct that money toward the students and
their parents instead. It's worth a try. And lastly, teachers
starting salaries are too low ($50-$60,000). Teaching is a
really tough and extremely important job, so we need the best
and brightest doing it. We need to put pressure on the Mayor,
City Council, and the Philadelphia School District to make
meaningful changes so that all Philadelphia students are doing
their best.
(Covers City
Council Committees: Education,
Children & Youth)
