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Truancy Definition, Facts and Laws

What is Truancy?

The definition of truancy is usually established by school district policy and may vary across districts. Definitions for an excused absence, an unexcused absence, or a truancy can vary by state and even school districts.

Any unexcused absence from school is considered a truancy, but states enact their own school attendance laws. State law determines 1) the age at which a child is required to begin attending school, 2) the age at which a child may legally drop out of school, and 3), the number of unexcused absences at which a student is considered legally truant.

Truancy is a status offense – an act that is a crime due to the young age of the actor, but would not be illegal for someone older. The other most common status offenses are running away from home, alcohol use, curfew violations, and ungovernability.

Truancy: An Overview of the Problem

Generally, absentee rates are highest in public schools in the inner-city where larger numbers of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches source: (Heaviside et al., 1998). (Higher truancy rates generally correlate with poverty; higher rates of free and reduced-price lunches are typically used as evidence of poverty.)

National Truancy Statistics:

Truancy and ungovernability case rates peaked at age 15 and runaway case rates peaked at age 16. In contrast, status liquor law violation case rates increased continuously with age: from 1.8 at age 15 to 6.3 at age 17.

While there is not an abundance of national truancy data, some metropolitan areas report thousands of unexcused absences each day.
(source: DeKalb, Jay, “Student Truancy,” ERIC Digest 125, April 1999.)

Data from Wisconsin show that during the 1998-99 school year, 15,600 students or 1.6% of enrolled students were truant per day. Truancy accounted for about 1/3 of total
absences that year. Truancy rates in the 10 largest urban school districts were twice as high as the state average.

Legislative Audit Committee of the State of Wisconsin, “A Best Practices Review: Truancy Reduction Efforts,” August 2000.

Students with behavioral problems are often assigned to a counselor, but school counselors have large caseloads. Public high schools employed one counselor for every 284 students in 2002. Large schools (1,200+ students) employed one counselor for every 335 students. Counselors in schools with over 50% minority enrollment were responsible for 22% more students than their colleagues in low minority enrollment schools – 313 compared to 256 students.

National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Table 12: Number of guidance staff and counselors, and the number of students per guidance staff and per counselor assigned to public high school students, by selected school,”

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/frss/publications/2003015/images/tab12.gif, October 1, 2004.

Boys are only slightly more likely to be sent to court for truancy than girls.

According to juvenile court statistics collected by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, 54% of all petitioned truancy cases between 1990 and 1999 were for males, and 46% were for females. [source: Puzzanchera, C., et. al., Juvenile Court Statistics 1999, National Center for Juvenile Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, July 2003

Consequences of Truancy

Dropping out of school. Students who are chronically truant typically fall behind in grade level and drop out of school.
• Delinquency. Students who are chronically truant are also at-risk for other behaviors, such as alcohol and drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and delinquency.
• Negative effect upon other students. Students who are chronically truant require extra time from teachers; teachers have less time to spend with the regularly-attending students in the classroom when they must create make-up work for truants.

Causes of Truancy

What influences truancy? In early research, depending upon the perspective of the researcher, truancy was said to be caused by the student, the student’s family, or the school. More recently, it is understood that a combination of all three factors usually affect truancy:

Characteristics of the Student:

low grades in reading and mathematics
• neurological factors, such as dyslexia
• inability to make friends with mainstream students or teachers
• negative attitudes toward school or teachers

Characteristics of the Student’s Family:
• parent(s) who do not value education
• parent(s) who did not complete school, were truant themselves
• poor parenting skills
• low socio-economic status
• physical or mental health problems of parents
• family history of delinquency
• single parent families
• many children in the family

Characteristics of the School:
• weak or no monitoring of daily attendance
• inconsistent attendance policies
• lack of parent involvement in the school
• lack of personalized attention to students
• lack of teacher expectations for high student achievement

Results of high school failure

No one really knows what the drop out rate for truants is; most school districts do not collect the data. Data from the 2000 census show that high school dropouts had only a 52% employment rate in 1999, compared to 71% for high school graduates, and 83% for college graduates. Of those who worked full-time year-round in 1999, high school drop outs earned only 65% of the median earnings.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/earnings/call1usboth.html/

For every race and gender group, high school dropouts claim more in government-funded social services expenditures than high school graduates. For men in particular,
dropouts incur more in criminal justice costs. The average dropout costs more than $200,000 in current dollars over the course of his or her lifetime.

Vernez, Georges, Richard A. Krop, and C. Peter Rydell, Closing the Education Gap: Benefits and Costs, RAND MR-1036-EDU, 1999.

As of 1997, 41% of prison inmates, and 31% percent of probationers 18 years and older had not graduated from high school or earned a GED, compared with 18% of the general population. Harlow, C. W., “Education and Correctional Populations,” Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, January 2003, NCJ 195670.

School attendance laws

Compulsory education laws are determined by state legislation. States typically require school attendance from the ages of six to 16, but variations in laws mean that depending on a child’s state of residence, (s)he is required to attend as few as nine or as many as thirteen years of school. Only 16 states require attendance until the age typical of high school graduation.

In most states, young people are entitled to receive public education until the age of 21, yet anecdotal evidence suggests that failing students who are expected tolower schools’ standardized test scores are often encouraged to withdraw. State laws also vary regarding the definition of truancy.

South Carolina attendance law is reproduced in an appendix. The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools and districts to report attendance rates for the first time, yet differences in state definitions mean that no aggregated national data on truancy will be available even under the new regulations.

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Yes. I agree. I think you’ll love “The Education Revolution” and we will agree to disagree on some points, but something must be done as I, for one, cannot continue to stand by while students and parents suffer.

Spoiler Alert:

I’m not going to turn it around, I’m throwing out the current ‘educational process’ for a new ‘educational process’ that starts with the education of ‘the whole student’ in learning levels not grade levels. “We don’t need more money, we need a reorganization of the human and physical resources.” The teacher, not the principal, chooses the students the teacher desires, is educated and trained to teach with merit pay paid to the teacher as a student moves from one learning level to the next level learning level beginning with the basics in reading, writing and arithmetic. The teacher works with each student from, approximately 10 to 50 students in each learning level, to address the needs of each student and the parents. Common Core is a complete disaster. Charter Schools are not the answer. Charter Schools are the result of unions forcing parents to run from the public schools because the unions don’t have the leadership nor perception to determine educational policy.

The education process is even worse than you describe. I’d like you to hear the speech so I’m prepared to research something If I’ve missed something or clarify my statements with the right terminology and definitions.

My goal is to organize the students, parents and teachers to force meaningful change to the educational process by electing legislators who listen, understand and change the educational legislation responsive to the needs of the students and teachers are well paid.

VOCABULARY

Student

stu·dent (stdnt, styd-)

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One who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university.
a.One who studies something:a student of contemporary dance.
An attentive observer:a student of world affairs.

Read

read (rēd)

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read(rĕd), read·ing, reads

v.tr.

To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).
To utter or render aloud (written or printed material):read poems to the students.
To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation):reads Chinese; reads music.
a.To examine and grasp the meaning of (language in a form other than written or printed characters, words, or sentences):reading Braille; reading sign language.
To examine and grasp the meaning of (a graphic representation): reading a map.
a.To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation:The tracker read the trail for signs of game.
To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry: “I can read abandonment in a broken door or shattered window” (William H. Gass).
To determine the intent or mood of:can read your mind like a book; a hard person to read.
a.To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to:read her words differently than I did.
To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance: read the novel as a parable.
To foretell or predict (the future).
To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example):I read you loud and clear.
To study or make a study of:read history as an undergraduate.
To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed:read that interest rates would continue to rise.
To proofread.
To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage:For change read charge.
To indicate, register, or show:The dial reads 32°.
ComputersTo obtain (data) from a storage medium, such as an optical disc.
GeneticsTo decode or translate (a sequence of messenger RNA) into an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.

v.intr.

To examine and grasp the meaning of printed or written characters, as of words or music.
To speak aloud the words that one is reading:read to the children every night.
To learn by reading:read about the storm in the paper today.

To study.
To have a particular wording:Recite the poem exactly as it reads.
To contain a specific meaning:As the law reads, the defendant is guilty.
To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure:How does your new watch read?
To have a specified character or quality for the reader:Your poems read well.
Informal
Something that is read:”The book is a page-turner as well as a very satisfying read”(Frank Conroy).
An interpretation or assessment:gave us her read of the political situation.

adj. (rĕd)

Informed by reading; learned: only sparsely read in fields outside my profession.

Phrasal Verbs:

read out

To read aloud: Please read out the names on the list.

read up

To study or learn by reading: Read up on the places you plan to visit before you travel.

Idioms:

read a lecture/lesson

To issue a reprimand: My parents read me a lecture because I had neglected my chores.

read between the lines

To perceive or detect an obscure or unexpressed meaning: learned to read between the lines of corporate annual reports to discern areas of fiscal weakness.

read out of

To expel by proclamation from a social, political, or other group: was read out of the secretariat after the embarrassing incident.

[Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan, to advise; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: English is the one of the few western European languages that does not derive its verb for “to read” from Latin legere. Compare, for example, leggere in Italian, lirein French, and lesen in German. (Equally surprising is the fact that English is the only western European language not to derive its verb for “to write” from Latin scrībere.) Readcomes from the Old English verb rǣdan, “to advise, interpret (something difficult), interpret (something written), read.” Rǣdan is related to the German verb raten, “to advise” (as in Rathaus, “town hall”). The Old English noun rǣd, “counsel,” survives in the rare noun rede, “counsel, advice” and in the name of the unfortunate King Ethelred the Unready, whose epithet is often misunderstood. Unready here does not have its current sense “unprepared”; it is a late 16th-century spelling of an earlier unredy, “ill-advised, rash, foolish,” from rede.

Write

write (rīt)

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v. wrote (rōt), writ·ten (rĭtn) also writ (rĭt), writ·ing, writes

v.tr.

1. a. To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen.

b. To form (letters or words) in cursive style, especially in contrast to printing by hand.

c. To spell: How do you write your name?

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2. a. To fill (an amount of space) with words or information: wrote five pages in an hour.

b. To put written information in the blank spaces of (a check, form, or similar document).

3. a. To produce or compose (text) in a recorded form that can be read: write a poem; write a letter.

b. To express in writing; set down: write one’s thoughts.

c. To communicate by writing, especially by written letter: She wrote that she was planning to visit.

d. To communicate with (someone) by writing, especially by letter: wrote me to tell me she had moved again.

4. To compose (a musical work).

5. a. To underwrite, as an insurance policy.

b. To compose in legal form; draft: write a will.

6. To indicate; mark: “Utter dejection was written on every face” (Winston S. Churchill).

7. To ordain or prophesy: It was written that the empire would fall.

8. Computers To transfer or copy (information) from memory to a storage device or output device.

v.intr.

1. To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface: people who cannot read or write.

2. To produce written material, such as articles or books: She wrote for most of her adult life.

3. To compose a letter, e-mail, or other written communication: Please write while you are away.

Phrasal Verbs:

write down

1. To set down in writing.

2. Accounting To record a reduced value for (an asset): forced to write down a security after a fall in its market value.

3. Accounting To record (a loss) by reducing the value of an asset: wrote down $10 million in bad debt.

4. To write in a conspicuously simple or condescending style: felt he had to write down to his students.

5. To disparage in writing: a film that was written down in the magazine.

write in

1. To cast a vote by inserting (a name not listed on a ballot).

2. To insert in a text or document: wrote in an apology at the end of the note.

3. To communicate with an organization by mail: write in with a completed entry form.

write off

1. Accounting To record (a worthless asset) as a loss.

2. Accounting To record (a loss or expense) as a reduction in earnings or in the value of an asset: wrote off business expenses when calculating taxable income.

3. To consider as a loss or failure: wrote off the rainy first day of the vacation.

4. To disregard as inconsequential: wrote off the singer as a novelty act.

write out

1. To express or compose in writing: write out a request.

2. To write in full or expanded form: All abbreviations are to be written out.

write up

1. To write a report or description of, as for publication.

2. Accounting To record an increased value for (an asset).

3. To report (someone) in writing, as for breaking the law: wrote him up for speeding.

4. To bring (a journal, for example) up to date.

Idioms:

write (one’s) own ticket

To set one’s own terms or course of action entirely according to one’s own needs or wishes:an open-ended and generous scholarship that lets recipients write their own ticket.

write the book on

To be the preeminent practitioner of or expert in (something).

writ large

Signified, expressed, or embodied in a greater or more prominent magnitude or degree:”The man was no more than the boy writ large” (George Eliot).

[Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan.]

Word History: Every modern Indo-European language of Western Europe except English derives its verb for “to write” from Latin scrībere: French écrire, Spanish escribir,Portuguese escrever, Catalan escriure, Italian scrivere, Irish scríobh, Scottish Gaelicsgrìobh, Welsh ysgrifennu, Breton skriva, Icelandic skrifa, Danish and Norwegian skrive,Swedish skriva, German schreiben, and Dutch schrijven. The English verb write, however, comes from Old English wrītan, from the Germanic root *writ- that in turn comes from the Indo-European root *wreid- meaning “to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline.” German still retains this meaning in its cognate verb reissen, “to tear.” Only Old English employedwrītan to refer to writing—that is, scratching on parchment with a pen. English shows a similar contrariness in its verb read, being almost the only western European language not to derive that verb from Latin legere.

Educate

ed·u·cate (ĕjə-kāt′)

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ed·u·cat·ed, ed·u·cat·ing, ed·u·cates

v.tr.

To develop the mental, moral, or social capabilities of, especially by schooling or instruction. See Synonyms at teach.
To provide with knowledge or training in a particular area or for a particular purpose:decided to educate herself in foreign languages; entered a seminary to be educated for the priesthood.
To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior:hoped to educate the voters about the need for increased spending on public schools.
To develop or refine (one’s taste or appreciation, for example).

v.intr.

To teach or instruct a person or group.

Education

ed·u·ca·tion (ĕj′ə-kāshən)

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1. The act or process of educating or being educated.

2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

3. A program of instruction of a specified kind or level: driver education; a college education.

4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

5. An instructive or enlightening experience: Her work in an animal shelter was a real education.

Teach

teach (tēch)

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v. taught (tôt), teach·ing, teach·es

v.tr.

1. To impart knowledge or skill to: teaches children.

2. To provide knowledge of; instruct in: teaches French.

3. To condition to a certain action or frame of mind: teaching youngsters to be self-reliant.

4. To cause to learn by example or experience: an accident that taught me a valuable lesson.

5. To advocate or preach: teaches racial and religious tolerance.

6. To carry on instruction on a regular basis in: taught high school for many years.

v.intr.

To give instruction, especially as an occupation.

n.
Slang

A teacher.

[Middle English techen, from Old English tǣcan; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: teach, instruct, educate, train, school¹, discipline, drill¹
These verbs mean to impart knowledge or skill. Teach is the most widely applicable: taught the child to draw; taught literature at the college. Instruct often suggests training in some special field or skill: instructed the undergraduates in music theory. Educate often implies formal instruction but especially stresses the development of innate capacities: “We are educated by others … and this cultivation, mingling with our innate disposition, is the soil in which our desires, passions, and motives grow” (Mary Shelley).
Train suggests concentration on particular skills intended to fit a person for a desired role:trained the vocational students to be computer technicians. School often implies an arduous training process: “He took young Deanie under his wing and schooled him in the art of ambidextrous gunplay” (T.J. English).
Discipline usually refers to the teaching of control, especially self-control: disciplined myself to exercise every day. Drill implies rigorous instruction or training, usually by repetition:drilled the students by having them recite the multiplication tables.

Teacher

teach·er (tēchər)

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One who teaches, especially one hired to teach.

Mathematics

math·e·mat·ics (măth′ə-mătĭks)

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n.(used with a sing. verb)

The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.

[FromMiddle Englishmathematik, fromOld Frenchmathematique, fromLatinmathēmatica, fromGreekmathēmatikē (tekhnē), mathematical (science), feminine ofmathēmatikos, mathematical; see MATHEMATICAL.]

Dear Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition,

I would ask to speak at one of your meetings on the state of the public education school system with my vision speech called “The Education Revolution”. The education process has been operating out of the same basic educational theory for over a hundred years. Today, the education process is arcane. It’s time for a fresh perspective on the educational process.

I’m in pre-production for the production of a nationally syndicated television family talk show with 25 student co-hosts called American Family Life. Previously, I produced a live radio family talk show for thirteen weeks with student co-hosts, parents, grandparents and experts including guest student co-hosts with an emphasis on “The Arts”. The student co-hosts produced the Public Service Announcements (PSA’s). The family now has a venue to discuss their issues in entertainment and information vignettes from the perspective of the whole family and the experts. In addition, I’m in pre-production with a feature film called “I Can’t Read!”. 48% of the culture in The United States are “functionally illiterate” as they cannot do basic reading, writing and arithmetic. Many of these students and adults learn differently from the traditional teaching methods and suffer from learning disabilities and/or mental disorders that have not been properly diagnosed and treated.

I’m a practicing trial attorney with history of special education, suspension and expulsion cases as a private attorney and cases from the Legal Society of Palm Beach County. I attended Drake University, School of Law and graduated from Northern Illinois, College of Law with a Juris Doctor degree. While at Drake University I attended the Graduate School and was awarded a Master of Science in Education (M.S.E.) and the Specialist in Education Leadership (Ed.S.) degrees then graduated from The University of Iowa Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Education (Ph.D.). I’m a practicing trial attorney in Florida. I was cross trained to mediate, arbitrate, legislate and litigate educational policy issues. I have studied and worked on the educational policy issues addressed by the states and nationally including the Congressional hearings for over 40 years. I was a teacher in Michigan for two years and then for nearly a year in Florida.

THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION

Woodie H. Thomas, III, Ph.D., Esq.

We need a revolution in education not reformers. Reform is generally distinguished from a revolution. The latter means basic or radical change; whereas reform may be no more than fine tuning, or at best redressing serious wrongs without altering the fundamentals of the system. Reform seeks to improve the system as it stands, never to overthrow it wholesale.

The educational process works from the top down instead of from the bottom up. In other words, it must start with the individual student and the parents. The human and physical resources are then built into an educational process around the student that takes the student from point A to point B by the teachers with required skills sets to teach the students. At a minimum a student must have the ability to read, write, and do arithmetic in order to function as a literate person in a free democratic society. The answers do not necessarily require more money, but a reorganization of the human and physical resources with teachers who have the skill sets necessary to teach the students. The No Child Left Behind Act does not set appropriate basic national education standards. What is a basic vocabulary and the definitions necessary to function independently in society as a literate person? How do you teach a student to write a basic sentence and then write a simple paragraph? How do you teach a student to do basic math consisting of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? The state testing must be based on these minimum standards that demonstrate a student may function independently in society. If the student passes a basic test, they will receive a basic high school diploma beginning at age 16. The student is free to get a job, go to a technical or vocational school, go into the armed forces, start a business, etc. At a minimum 25% of our students are forced to drop out because of life circumstances. All students are not destined for college. The student is free to return to school at any time for a regular high school diploma, dual enrollment for college classes, vocational or technical school. The individual states and the school districts would test at the elementary, middle and high school level with a diagnostic test to identify the learning issues with the student’s basics skills. If a student cannot pass the basic test for reading, writing and arithmatic the student would be further tested for learning disabilities, behavior, emotional, social and parental issues affecting the student’s ability to receive a basic education. The test is not a test of exclusion as with the current misguided state tests. As you note, those learning issues include dealing with “the whole child” emotionally, socially and academically. Only then may the school, as its first priority, provide the human and physical resources necessary to teach each student to read, write and do arithmetic. Once the student learns to function independently with a basic education, the student may then seek their own level of formal education by returning to school in the future or obtaining an informal education through life experience, reading, taking various classes in the community and the internet.

Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION

“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.” Barbara Colorose

INTRODUCTION

The goal of the educational process is to graduate each high school student, at a minimum, with a basic high school diploma and the ability to function independently in a free democratic society with the basic academic skills to read, write and do arithmetic. A high school diploma with additional math, english, history, government, etc. is an option for all students.

The educational process will be responsive to meet the learning, academic, behavior and social needs of each student in the school system. The educational process starts with an individual education plan (IEP) for each student that includes “The Arts”, sports with other academic and elective classes or activities based on the students’ interests.

We will revolutionize the educational process by reorganizing the physical and human resources without additional cost with the exception the introduction of 21^st century education technology. We will train teachers with “master teaching skills” from the most successful teachers. Teachers will select the students they want to teach. We will build the school system from the inside out based on the needs of the students in that school with the required human and physical resources necessary to address each students particular learning needs.

We will no longer force students through a mediocre, irrelevant, and meaningless educational process with ineffective educational policies and teaching techniques. We will not need more classrooms requiring a certain number of students per classroom. The number of students per classroom is relative to the subject matter and the type of student or students taught in that classroom. We determine classroom size based on the educational needs of the students and how many students the teacher may effectively teach depending on the students learning issues similar situated. We all know some students need more attention than others. Teachers will have master teaching skills in addition to their academic credentials. We will train these master teachers who will make higher salaries based on the performance of their students. These highly qualified master teachers will choose their own students and the number of students they will teach in their classroom receiving merit pay based on the academic performance of their students.

The educational process starts with taking each student as an individual and then guide that student through the educational process with achievement levels rather than grade levels. Modernly, the school is the only place remaining in society to address the academic, learning style, cultural norms, health issues, learning disabilities and behavior modification issues for each student. If not in school: Where?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.”

“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”

“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

SUMMARY

No Child Left Behind/State Examinations.

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it for himself.”

Galileo Galilei

“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another.”

Benjamin Jowett

“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.” Grayson Kirk

“Children need models more than they need critics.”

Joseph Joubert

FCAT/CAT: All states will have a Comprehensive Achievement Examination as a diagnostic test for reading, writing and arithmetic, learning styles whether kinesthetic, that is, working with objects by touching and feeling, visual or auditory and a test for symptoms of learning disabilities rather than a punitive test of exclusion.

The State of Florida will revise the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Examination (FCAT) to a diagnostic test for reading, writing and arithmetic, learning styles and learning disabilities rather than a test of exclusion.

The state examination will not only measure academic achievement in math, reading and writing, but the test will identify learning issues whether academic or behavioral to address the students educational needs with the goal to pass a final examination for a high school diploma demonstrating they can function independently in society with the ability to read, write and do arithmetic.

The state examination for students such as the FCAT in Florida will periodically test the students during the third, seventh and tenth grade to determine if a student has the basic skills to read, write and do basic math in a diagnostic review. This test will assist the school system to address the students individual learning needs, determine their learning style(s) including auditory, visual, and kinesthetic and the methodology necessary to bring the individual student up to the minimum standards necessary to function in society. A student who passes the state exam in the tenth (10) grade is allowed to graduate with a high school diploma. If students are not progressing toward functioning independently in society with a minimum of skills, the educational process is worthless. Students are allowed to graduate at sixteen with a diploma and begin college or vocational school. Students should have the option to stay in school and take dual enrollment classes until they are 18.

The NCLB act a federal statute was designed to create uniform national minimum standards for all schools regardless of the school district’s ability to raise educational funds from property and other taxes. The test is a good idea; however, the test is not a needs assessment test that addresses the needs of the student so the school district can organize the academic and physical resources to address the needs of the student. We are now testing failed educational policies which we already know have failed.

The state examination not only measure academic achievement in math, reading and writing, but test identifies educational issues whether academic or behavioral. We will address the students educational needs with the goal pass a final examination for a high school diploma which demonstrates they can function independently in society with the ability to read, write and do arithmetic.

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

Clay P. Bedford

The state exams for students such as the FCAT in Florida periodically tests the student at the end of the third, seventh and tenth grade to determine if a student has the basic skills to read, write and do basic math as a diagnostic review. This assists the school system to address the students individual learning needs, determine their learning style(s) including auditory, visual, and kinesthetic and the methodology necessary to bring the individual student up to the minimum standards necessary to function in society. Those students who pass the state exam in the tenth (10) grade are allowed to graduate with a high school diploma. If students are not progressing to function independently in society with a minimum of skills, the educational process is worthless. Students are allowed to graduate at sixteen with a diploma and begin college or vocational school. Students should have the option to stay in school and take dual enrollment classes until they are 18. Standardized national tests for Mid-Term and Final Exams reviewed annually for the basic subjects such as social studies, and the sciences.

All public high school mid-term and final exams are standardized for universal basic subject matter needed to understand the basic concepts for history, government, biology, science, etc.

Teacher Accountability. “When a student fails the teacher fails.”

Woodie Thomas

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)



“The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared … to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.”	Shirley Mount Hufstedler

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”	Victor Hugo
“Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.”	Leon Lessinger
“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”	Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”	John Cotton Dana
Gail

Individual merit pay for master teachers based on student success in the classroom is necessary to attract and retain excellent teachers. This includes master teachers with the skills sets who select the type and number of students they can effectively teach and work with for the school year. Teacher accountability is critical to the overall success of the educational process. The teacher chooses the students they want to teach. The number of students in the classroom, that is, class size is determined by the teachers’ level professional expertise, the student’s skills and capabilities and the amount of time required to work with the entire class and the individual students. Students are motivated by a relevant meaningful academic programs and socialization in the educational process to deal with relationship and behavior issues including learning disabilities that leads to jobs, vocational training and college preparation. Master teachers will have the teaching skills and physical resources to teach the students they are motivated and trained to teach. Military, Montessori, Arts, Athletes, Special Ed, Behavior, etc. School within a school.

Dual Enrollment. “Attend College or Vocational School at 16

tuition free at the local colleges.”

Students will attend the local Community College, College, University, or vocational school beginning in their junior year of high school tuition free with texts, video’s and study materials available on-line.

Dual enrollment is encouraged for degree seeking students in the Arts, Sciences and Technical/Information Technology/Trade/Vocational Schools beginning with the junior year of high school or earlier with demonstrated academic ability. If the high school student successfully completes 12 credit hours they may continue attending public community college tuition free including on-line study material when they graduate high school.

3.) Virtual Education. “Technology and On-line education has arrived.”

Educators realize technology’s enormous potential to help

them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students’ needs, abilities, or learning styles. Cellular Phones, Twitter, and Blogs.

Textbooks and study materials are available on-line 24/7 and students are provided with a CD textbook. There is video classroom instruction and lectures available on every subject. In addition, homework, tutoring, course syllabus, tests, school events, and educational videos are available on demand on-line.

Virtual learning should be encouraged, particularly, for those students who have the capability to move at their own pace and move forward in the educational process to complete a degree or for their own personal growth and development. This includes the thousands of students who cannot attend classes on campus when they are out of the local educational setting because of their life circumstances such as in the armed forces, homebound, jail, or must work to support their family.

Move into the 21^st century with student access on-line to the educational process. Adapt

new technology as it becomes available on the internet. This includes the class syllabus, curriculum content, sample tests, the minimum vocabulary, writing, math, and reading skills required for graduation including classroom instruction, video lectures, homework, and tutoring.

All classroom lectures are videotaped for each class and available via the internet which may be viewed 24/7 on demand via computer or the local educational television. Students will have the option to send and receive homework via computer. Testing, diagnosis, and treatment for learning disabilities will be available on line. Students will be able to fulfill their high school educational requirements on-line whether they have dropped out from formal classes, in jail or prison, or the military service.

Move into the 21^st century with new technology tools with student access on-line to the educational process. Textbooks are available on-line 24/7 and students are not provided with a textbook, but a CD. There is video classroom instruction on every subject broken down into the relevant concepts for the subject matter. In addition, homework, tutoring, school events, educational videos are available on demand and live classroom instruction and video tutoring and conferences are available on-line. Hint: Four Day Work Week!

Virtual learning should be encouraged, particularly, for those students who have the capability to move at their own pace and move forward in the educational process to complete a degree or for their own personal growth and development. This includes the hundreds of students who cannot attend classes on campus because they are out of the campus educational process because of their life circumstances such as in the armed forces, homebound, jail, or must work to support their family.

Adopt and adapt computer technology as it becomes available including i-pods, cell phones, etc. This includes the class syllabus, curriculum content, sample tests, classroom instruction, homework, tutoring, videos, Every student will have access to a computer at school, the public library, cell phone, and other personal electronic device.

All classroom lectures are videotaped for each class will be available via computer which may be viewed 24/7 on demand. Students will have the option to send and receive homework via computer. Testing, diagnosis, and treatment for learning disabilities will be available on line. Students will be able to fulfill their high school educational requirements on-line whether they have dropped out from formal classes, in prison, or the military service.

“The Arts”

“The Arts” must be included as a critical integral part of the academic and socialization process at every grade level in every school.

“The Arts” have a profound impact on students who participate and learn to appreciate the “The Arts”. All students participate in “The Arts” whether actively involved or as an appreciative audience. Note: I have had the distinct pleasure of watching my daughter attend the Bok Middle School of the Arts and the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. High School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. Students who participate in “The Arts” have more personal discipline and success in the educational process and in their carreer endeavors. They have more imagination, creativity, speaking and writing skills, organizational skills and their grades are usually substantially higher.

In addition, I worked with twenty-five (25) student co-hosts for a family talk show who were chosen through auditions that were mostly from the school of the Arts. I have personally witnessed the dramatic impact “The Arts” has on a student’s discipline, academic and social development, self-confidence, maturity, sophistication and character.

Class Size.

The class size constitutional amendment is useless. There is no credible research that smaller classes have raised educational standards. The money would be better spent on training master teachers. Class size is determined by how many students may be effectively taught in the classroom without sacrificing the quality of educational process. College bound students usually require less instruction than regular students where the class size might be smaller because of the individual tutoring required to work with regular students. Students with special education or behavior issues will necessarily require a smaller number of students per classroom and/or more individual instruction.

Bond Issues.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled that public bond issues must be approved by voters. I have two comments as this relates to school districts. First, except for growth areas that require new schools, there was a class size amendment to the Florida Constitution that requires so many students per classroom. The voters have already voted and the schools must be built per the number of students in elementary, middle and high schools without another vote of the voters for the bond issue. Second, even if the Florida Supreme Court rules that voters must vote on bond issues for new schools, there are public relations strategies to get the bond issues approved by voters. Note: There is no credible replicated research that demonstrates classroom size makes a significant difference on student achievement. We need more master teachers not more classrooms to address the learning needs of students whether the student needs one on one instruction or you have fifty students in a lecture style classroom for excellent students that need little instruction and individual attention.

Bond Issues.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled that public bond issues must be approved by voters. I have two comments as this relates to school districts. First, except for population growth areas that require new schools, there was a class size amendment to the Florida Constitution that requires so many students per classroom. The voters have already voted and the school’s classrooms must be built per the number of students in elementary, middle and high school without another vote of the voters for the bond issue. Second, even if the Florida Supreme Court rules that voters must vote on bond issues for new schools, there are public relations strategies to get the bond issues approved by voters. Note: There is no credible replicated research that demonstrates classroom size makes a significant difference on student achievement. We need more master teachers not more classrooms to address the individual educational plans and, consequently, the learning needs of students whether the student needs one on one instruction or you have fifty students in a lecture style classroom who are excellent students that need individual instruction.

8.) Study Skills.

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

Chinese Proverb

Offer student’s classes to learn study skills, remedial education including their learning style auditory, visual, and kinesthetic and address their learning disabilities. For example, a speed reading course is offered to improve reading skills. This is also available on-line and through peer group teaching.

10.) Life Skills.

“An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.”

Author Unknown

This includes segments on the importance of cultural diversity, the difference between morals, ethics, and law, personal discipline, personal responsibility, anger control management, coping skills, dealing with bully’s, conflict resolution, peer group counseling, junior achievement, toastmasters, cooking, basic auto repair and home repairs, and business and personal etiquette.

11.) A Conselor, Nurse and Therapist In Every School.

As an integral part of the holistic educational process, every school will have a counselor, therapist and therapist or any combination thereof whereby students may talk to a professional about serious personal issues affecting their physical or mental health issues affecting their academic and social relationships such as school success, parents, drugs, alcohol, academics, death, divorce, sexual identity, pregnancy, birth control, etc.

12.) Individual Education Plan (IEP).

Each student has an Individual Education Plan. Students are tested to determine their learning style(s) whether auditory, visual, or kinesthetic. Behavior, social and special education issues are addressed. Other testing is available for diseases such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism, alcohol and drug testing.

12.) Eliminate Grade Levels For With Learning Levels.

Eliminate grades levels and replace them with Learning Levels based on the students learning styles and level of academic achievement. A student is placed into a classroom setting based on their learning level whether they are in a 3^rd level reading, 4^th level math, and a second grade reading level.

13.) Eliminate Grade Levels For Learning Levels.

Eliminate grades levels and replace them with Learning Levels based on the students learning styles and their level of academic achievement. A student is placed into a classroom setting based on their learning level whether they are in a 3^rd level reading, 4^th level math, and a second level writing.

13.) Teachers Choose The Students They Want To Teach.

“How about all the wealthy and middle-income kids who also underperform for reasons from “spoiled’ to god-knows- what? All the stuff you mention is real……. but it’s not enough, as my own educational experience shows.” Quote From A Unnamed Teacher.

Barbara Colorose

For each student there is a master teacher who not only knows how to teach, but knows how to connect emotionally and intellectually to the students’ personality and educational needs. The number of students in each class is determined by the difficulty of the subject matter and the intellectual and emotional make up of the student. There is no limit to class size as some students need one on one instruction with a professional master teacher, others need a special education teacher while the better students usually only need a minimum of instruction where classes are usually large with the number of students depend on the subject matter.

For each student there is a teacher who not only knows how to teach the subject matter, but has master teaching skills to connect culturally, emotionally and intellectually to the students’ educational needs, emotional needs, cultural background, economic status and personality. The number of students in each classroom is determined by the difficulty of the subject matter and the intellectual and emotional make up of the students. There is no limit to class size as some students need one on one instruction with a professional teacher, while others need a special education teacher. The better student’s usually only need a minimum of instruction where classes are generally larger depending on the subject matter.

14.) Reward Student’s Incentives For Academic Achievement.

Incentive money is paid to each student who achieves success with each Learning Level.

These rewards could be nominal amounts of money and/or gifts or gift certificates or scholarships from business people in the community including McDonald’s, Applebee’s, Wal-Mart, Target, Sport Authority, Cold Stone, etc. For each student that achieves a success with achievement learning level, the teacher receives a bonus in the form of money and/or gifts or gift certificates. Students work with guidance counselors, mentors, and peer group counselors as success coaches.

In the future incentive money is paid to each student who achieves success with each Learning Level Success and recognize student for most improved, attendance, all A’s, all B’s, writing a special paper, mentoring other students, tutoring other students, etc.

These rewards could be nominal amounts of “recognition” money and/or gifts or gift certificates from local business people in the community. Encourage major sponsors like Applebee’s, Friday’s, Chili’s and other family oriented restaurants with healthy menus. For each student that achieves a success with a learning level, the teacher receives a bonus in the form of money and/or gifts or gift certificates. Students work with guidance counselors, mentors, and peer group counselors as success coaches. The rewards are “educational awards” make the educational process more meaningful not because of the money or other rewards, but because of the recognition, feeling of success and improved self-esteem a student feel’s to set and reach goals in life.

15.) Mid-Term and Final Exams Standardized.

All high school major tests are standardized for universal basic subject matter content.

Every student will have access to a computer at school, the public library,

cell phone, and other personal electronic devices.

16.) Graduate Students at Age Sixteen With a Basic High School Diploma.

Students have the option to graduate at sixteen (16) with a high school diploma if they pass a standardized test that demonstrates they can function independently in society with the basic skills to read, write and do arithmetic. The economic reality for the educational process is that the life process of young people who desire to start a family voluntarily or involuntarily; need to work because of family finances; or students who are qualified to begin college and vocational school require that the high school education may be completed at the age of sixteen. Anyone may take the graduation examination from high school at any time for as many times as it is necessary to pass the test. Students receive a report demonstrating areas in which they did not pass and what remedial work is necessary to pass the test in the future.

Instead of teaching students to function independently, we keep them

dependent with educational process and requirements that is not relevant.

Students have the option to graduate at sixteen (16) with a high school diploma if they pass a standardized test that demonstrates they can function independently in society with the basic skills to read, write and do arithmetic. Those students not ready to attend college or graduate early continue to take classes to pursue the high school curriculum in math, science and college preparatory or vocation school. Although students are not fully developed intellectually until age 21, for many students there is an economic reality to support themselves or their family. Many students , students who find themselves with the necessity to support a child or those students who are qualified to begin college or vocational school at sixteen. In order to keep students motivated and engaged, the educational process must be relevant to a student’s future success for a job, college, vocational school which will keep them in the high school until the age of sixteen.

Elective Classes.

Offer elective classes in “The Arts” including theatre, dance, art, cooking, entrepreneurship, toastmasters, recreational sports, swimming lessons, tennis, golf, self defense, conflict resolution, peer group counseling, mediation training, toastmasters, basic plumbing, carpentry, electrical, etc. The school could charge a small fee to pay for the instructor and materials in a classroom at the school during regular school hours, after regular school hours and Saturdays.

Parental Involvement.

We make better students by making better parents. Parent’s involvement on any level with their student’s academic and social life are critical to the overall success of every student and the educational process.

Teachers are required telephone each parent or the legal guardian during each marking period and visit the home of every student in their classroom with an invitation from the parents at least once during the school year. Invite the parents to visit the school during school hours just before lunch and encourage the parents to have lunch with their son or daughter. Volunteers will act as mentors, especially, business, professionals, skilled trades, and grandparents.

18.) Parents Participation Critical.

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Erich Fromm

Every attempt must be made to reach out and involve parents and grandparents in the learning process with any participation in their student’s academic, behavior, and social life which is critical to the overall success of every student.

Teachers will make every effort to telephone each parent during each making period (or their legal guardians) and visit the home of every student in their classroom during the school year beginning with the students who appear to be having difficulty. The interest in their child and their wellbeing will add prestige to the teacher, the school, the parent and the child. If they are reluctant extend an invitation to their home, invite parents to visit the school in person to see the classroom, review, lessons plans, the grade book, completed projects, etc. Ask the parents, grandparents and community leaders to volunteer for various school activities. Parents may volunteer to act as mentors, especially, grandparents.

Remedial Education.

“Children need models more than they need critics.”

Joseph Joubert

School counselors coordinate educational services for any student that needs extra educational services because of their academic, learning disability, social and behavior issues that affect their academic success such as bullying. The guidance counselors, mentors and peer group counselors are success coaches.

20.) Vouchers

“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.” Ulysses S. Grant

Vouchers deplete desperately needed public funds from the public school system. Magnet schools, charter schools, home schooling, and virtual schools provide viable alternatives to the mainstream classroom. Teacher accountability in the classroom is the answer not vouchers. Vouchers for faith based groups are just another ruse to get public money to support religious beliefs and proselytizing to students. Would you take public funds in the form of vouchers from fire and police departments to establish private fire and police departments? Money taken from the public schools further dilutes the public school education process.

Educational Funding.

We don’t need more money, we need a more effective way of addressing the individual educational needs of students with a reorganization of human and physical resources. Motivate students with a relevant educational process which gives them the ability to read, write and do arithmetic so they can earn a living whether as a high school, college preparation, or vocational student.

The Florida Lottery isn’t the way to fund education as it encourages gambling with impossible odds that usually only encourages people who cannot afford to gamble on the chance of winning big and there way out of poverty and debt. The odds are… Many of those that have won big lottery prizes often schwander the money and end up back where they were before they won.

The property tax system works very well as it is. Encourage school districts to cultivate private funding from individuals and businesses for scholarships for students in who have a financial need or community college including vocational degrees and additional scholarships to complete college degree and beyond. Generally, the return on investment is when students learn to function independently in society with better jobs, they are happier, and better lifestyles. The return on investment for college with scholarships not only pays for the college experience, but the graduate earns higher wages that turns over many times in the economy and generate higher taxes all of which pays for the college scholarship. Support public schools by becoming actively involved as a parent, grandparent, corporate leader, mentor or concerned citizen and work for meaningful change.

Endowments and Scholarships and Loan Incentives from business and government for jobs if the students completes an academic or vocational program and then works for the business or government for as many years as they funded the students education to pay off the loan with interest to cover losses.

Empowering Students. The major goal is to teach students how to segway from being a dependent student to becoming an independent and interdependent young adult with the ability to read, write and do arithmetic including personal discipline, accepting the consequences for their own actions and setting their own goals to define their future for love and work. Parents and students don’t know the script for relationships, academic and career success. That’s the job of parents and the educational process. The traditional roll of teaching academics only will not work in a modern society. We must address relationship, behavior, social and cultural issues as critical component of the educational process.

21.) Mentorship

Touch a student’s life with your interest in helping others. Your teaching, parenting and business skills give hope to students who need someone guide them at a critical time in their life. Students need to learn the script of life. Many don’t have the guidance from parents…ever if they are good parents. Join groups such as Big Brother and Big Sisters, Junior Achievement, Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Sponsor Boys and Girls Sports Teams, volunteer at your local school. Include anyone who is interested in touching someone’s life to guide them with information, knowledge, skills, hope, inspiration, so the student knows someone cares that their not alone and isolated. Anyone can be a mentor including elementary, middle and high school students, parents, grandparents, and professionals. Grandparents are great to assist in teaching students to read and do math problems. You open the door to possibilities when you teach a student to read, write or do arithmetic, learn to swim, go to a live theatre performance, play sports, or just go for an ice cream.,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.”

“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”

“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

SUMMARY

No Child Left Behind/State Examinations.

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it for himself.”

Galileo Galilei

“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another.”

Benjamin Jowett

“Children need models more than they need critics.”

Joseph Joubert

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

Clay P. Bedford

All public high school mid-term and final exams are standardized for universal basic subject matter needed to understand the basic concepts for history, government, biology, science, etc.

Teacher Accountability. “When a student fails the teacher fails.”

Woodie Thomas

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)



“The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared … to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.”	Shirley Mount Hufstedler

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”	Victor Hugo
“Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.”	Leon Lessinger
“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”	Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”	John Cotton Dana
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”	Gail

Individual merit pay for master teachers based on student success in the classroom is necessary to attract and retain excellent teachers. This includes master teachers with the skills to select the type and number of students they can effectively teach and work with for the school year. Teacher accountability is critical to the overall success of the educational process. The teacher chooses the students they want to teach. The number of students in the classroom, that is, class size is determined by the teachers’ level professional expertise, the student’s skills and capabilities and the amount of time required to work with the entire class and the individual students. Students are motivated by a relevant meaningful academic programs and socialization in the educational process to deal with relationship and behavior issues including learning disabilities that leads to jobs, vocational training and college preparation. Master teachers will have the teaching skills and physical resources to teach the students they are motivated and trained to teach. Military, Montessori, Arts, Athletes, Special Ed, Behavior, etc. School within a school.

Dual Enrollment. “Attend College or Vocational School at 16

tuition free at the local colleges.”

3.) Virtual Education. “Technology and On-line education has arrived.”

Educators realize technology’s enormous potential to help

them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students’ needs, abilities, or learning styles. Cellular Phones, Twitter, and Blogs.

Move into the 21^st century with student access on-line to the educational process. Adapt

Virtual learning should be encouraged, particularly, for those students who have the capability to move at their own pace and move forward in the educational process to complete a degree or for their own personal growth and development. This includes the hundreds of students who cannot attend classes on campus because they are out of the campus educational process because of their life circumstances such as in the armed forces, homebound, jail, or must work to support their family.

“The Arts”

“The Arts: are included as a critical integral part of the academic and socialization process at every grade level in every school.

“The Arts” have a profound impact on students’ education including self-esteem, self-confidence and lifestyle choices who participate and learn to appreciate the “The Arts”. All students participate in “The Arts” whether actively involved or as an appreciative audience. Note: I have had the distinct pleasure of watching my daughter attend the Bok Middle School of the Arts and the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. High School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. Student who participate in “The Arts” have more personal discipline. They have more imagination, creativity and their grades are usually much better.

Class Size.

Bond Issues.

Bond Issues.

8.) Study Skills.

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”

Chinese Proverb

10.) Life Skills.

“An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.”

Author Unknown

11.) A Conselor, Nurse and Therapist In Every School.

12.) Individual Education Plan (IEP).

12.) Eliminate Grade Levels For With Learning Levels.

13.) Eliminate Grade Levels For Learning Levels.

13.) Teachers Choose The Students They Want To Teach.

Barbara Colorose

14.) Reward Student’s Incentives For Academic Achievement.

Incentive money is paid to each student who achieves success with each Learning Level.

15.) Mid-Term and Final Exams Standardized.

All high school major tests are standardized for universal basic subject matter content.

Every student will have access to a computer at school, the public library,

cell phone, and other personal electronic devices.

16.) Graduate Students at Age Sixteen With a Basic High School Diploma.

Instead of teaching students to function independently, we keep them

dependent with educational process and requirements that is not relevant.

Students have the option to graduate at sixteen (16) with a high school diploma if they pass a standardized test that demonstrates they can function independently in society with the basic skills to read, write and do arithmetic. Those students not ready to attend college or graduate early continue to take classes to pursue the high school curriculum in math, science and college preparatory or vocation school. Although students are not fully developed intellectually until age 21, for many students there is an economic reality to support themselves or their family. Many students , students who find themselves with the necessity to support a child or those students who are qualified to begin college or vocational school at sixteen. In order to keep students motivated and engaged, the educational process must be relevant to a student’s future success for a job, college, vocational school which will keep them in the high school until the age of sixteen.

Elective Classes.

Parental Involvement.

18.) Parents Participation Critical.

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Erich Fromm

Remedial Education.

“Children need models more than they need critics.”

Joseph Joubert

20.) Vouchers

Educational Funding.

Empowering Students. The major goal is to teach students how to segway from being a dependent student to becoming an independent and interdependent young adult with the ability to read, write and do arithmetic including personal discipline, accepting the consequences for their own actions and setting their own goals to define their future for love and work. Parents and students don’t know the script for relationships, academic and career success. That’s the job of parents and the educational process. The traditional roll of teaching academics only will not work in a modern society. We must address relationship, behavior, social and cultural issues as critical component of the educational process.

21.) Mentorship

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.”

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