May 9, 2023
1. President Carter established the National Department
of Education in 1979.
The Amendment X of The Constitution of the United States: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The National Department of Education is illegal and should be abolished.
The way I heard it was:
2. Bill Gates wanted his computers in all the public schools, so he hired a staff to write Common Core. Bill then went to the Governor’s convention and sold all 50 of them on restructuring the school system and putting Common Core into all the schools Nationwide.
3. The Governors presented it to the State School Boards and the State School Boards approved it.
4. Then the Governors signed it into law.
We lost our schools without even knowing it. Now our little children are abused with long days and heavy schedules. These demands are way too heavy for many of them to bear.
The public cried out against Common Core. The State of SC just added a few more Standards and renamed them the SC Standards. To accommodate the excessive requirements an hour was added to the school day in the early morning. As a result, many children do not get enough sleep. The optional kindergarten naps were eliminated in Horry County, SC and many other counties. The brain repairs itself while sleeping. Many children develop mental illnesses from lack of enough sleep.
Recesses were eliminated except for 10 minutes of playtime after lunch. The District claims it is 20 minutes but it takes 10 minutes of it to go to the restroom.
The developmentally appropriate curricula were thrown out. Teachers are still not given a written curriculum to follow. They have the Standard written and they must come up with the rest. Planning is very difficult and time consuming.
Computers were given to kindergartners and their little hands are too little to learn keyboarding. Therefore, they hunt and peck developing bad habits, which are never completely broken later when properly taught.
A developmentally appropriate handwriting curriculum should be: Manuscript in k, 1, and 2. Cursive should be taught in 3rd grade requiring 62 fifteen-minute lessons to cover lower and upper case letters as well as connections and transitioning. Computers should be given to the children in 4th grade and keyboarding should be taught. This way they learn correctly, when their hands are large enough to keyboard correctly.
The teachers wrote the standards but had no say in where they were placed in the curriculum or how many would be required at each level.
The curriculum is not developmentally appropriate. Twenty percent of our children are only able to learn life skills to survive. Thirty percent of our children need life skills and trade skills to help us all survive. Only 50 % of our children have the ability to complete college level work. We do not have enough jobs for the college graduates that we graduate. We have the most educated taxi drivers and waiters in the world. Each child is different and God makes them perfect for the job that He has for them. Our children need to find the will of God for them in their lives and do it. That is success.
As a result of the takeover of our schools in the late 90’s, suicides have risen consistently since 1999. That was 20 years before Covid. Don’t blame it on Covid or the social media. Blame it on the abusive schools and fix it.
We can start by:
Shortening the day by 1 hour.
Start school no earlier than 8 AM.
Restrict formal instruction to 4 hours a day.
Art, PE, music, and library are not recesses.
Recesses should be fifteen minutes around 10 AM and 40 minutes in the PM.
Lunchtime should be 20 minutes at the table and 10 minutes for the restroom, giving a total of 30 minutes.
Kindergartners should have the option of a nap.
Teachers should control curricula.
Testing should only be done the first week of school and during the last two weeks of school.
All other testing should be at the teacher’s discretion. The teacher knows when her children are ready for a test. Success is healthy.
Teachers should have the option to take their children outdoors anytime that she believes that they need a break.
Teachers should all have bases and balls so that the children can be rewarded an incentive game on Friday afternoon for good behavior. "
