How Do We Fix/Improve the Public Schools?
How do we improve them to have an educated populous in our community?
THROWING MONEY AT THE SCHOOLS DOESN’T WORK: JCPS spends more per capita per student (and has the highest tax burden) of any county school district in KY.
THROWING MONEY AT THE TEACHERS DOESN’T WORK: In 2022, JCPS will have the highest median teacher salary in the state.
It clearly isn’t resources, but how those resources are spent, and non-financial (even extra-curricular) factors that largely determine student achievement.
Parental Bill of Rights
Children do not belong to the state, and PARENTS MUST BE EMPOWERED to shape their children’s upbringing & education.
We embrace a PARENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS to counteract the corrosive, institutional Marxist Insanity in our educational system.
Parents have a right to:
*SAFETY: … know their children are physically safe when sent to school, through adequate law enforcement & security.
Keys for safety: HARDEN SCHOOLS. REQUIRE SROs. ALLOW CERTIFIED TEACHERS/STAFF TO CARRY FIREARMS. EXPAND ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS & MENTAL ILLNESS RESOURCES FOR KIDS WITH PERSISTENT BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS.
*TRANSPARENCY: … proactively know what their children are being taught, through mandatory posting of all lesson plans at least one week ahead of time on the school’s website. Parents should have to explicitly OPT-IN to any controversial instruction (incl. the next two categories). In-person Public Comment periods should be mandatory for all School Board meetings (or legislative hearings).
*NON-INDOCTRINATION: … NOT have their children indoctrinated in, or even willfully (favorably) exposed to, Marxist Ideology, or Race or Sex Discrimination in Public Ed (HB 18).
*NON-SEXUALIZATION / NON-CORRUPTION: … determine the age of exposure to sexual material that their children receive. The public school has no business addressing concepts like Sex (prior to high school), Sexuality, or Gender (esp. Fluidity); that is a parent’s role. This includes prohibiting pornography & obscenity in schools (incl. library resources). Also, any discussion or counseling must be disclosed to the parent.
*QUALITY SCHOOLS: … have good educational options WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. Within a School District, experienced public school teachers should be required to teach in significantly under-performing schools (rather than this being teacher union-driven & up to senior teacher discretion). Also, we must have educational tax Money Follows the Child School Choice, including to charter, home-, and private (incl. religious) schools (discussed below).
“Money Follows the Child” SCHOOL CHOICE
We must Empower Legislators to finally fix & elevate the KY educational system, so there are no more excuses. While the government has a compelling interest in assuring an educated populous, this does NOT mean that they have a compelling interest in controlling all education.
We support True “Money Follows the Child” SCHOOL CHOICE: Public education revenue should go wherever Parents choose to educate their kids.
This means:
(1) Permanent funding of legal Charter Schools (still “public schools,” just with less school board oversight).
(2) KY Constitutional Amendment removing Section 189, which prohibits governmental education funds going to religious schools (an anti-religious violation of #1A requiring litigation). Give legislators ALL options for improving our schools, including competition.
(3) Educational cost reimbursement: initially via HB 563 (2021) Tax Credit matching, soon via a true Voucher program introducing real choice/options to poor parents and true competition in the educational system.
*Also, consider the dissolution of the Federal Department of Education, returning control of public education to each state, consistent with the US Constitution: Amendment #10, and delegated roles of Gov’t.
Replace the Current KY Social Studies Standards
** Credit to the Bluegrass Institute for this idea **
Here are the current 229-page Kentucky Social Studies Standards.
Here are the much better 58-page Louisiana Social Studies Standards.
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THINKING LONG-TERM
STOP STRENGTHENING OUR ENEMIES,
START BUILDING UP OUR ALLIES.
We must start building an ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY:
A “city on a hill” that is separate from, and superior to, the current one
that is controlled, at nearly every turn, by our powerful ideological foes.
To control language & information is to control thought:
(1) We must control our ability to speak and associate freely, instead of being confined to a MATRIX of censorious, left-wing communication echo chambers (FAKE NEWS, REGIME MEDIA, HOLLYWOOD, BIG TECH).
(2) We must supporting our own content producers & generate more high-quality, high-production value content to out-compete NYT, WaPo, Hollywood, Netflix, Amazon, NBC… in the marketplace of ideas.
Build Up Conservative Social Institutions
Actively Advocate Against your Values
(4) Build up and strengthen existing conservative social institutions, infrastructure, groups, and advocacy networks in your world.
ESCAPE Coalition
Enabling School Choice & Alternative-ed for Parental Empowerment
“Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” – Reagan
“Only a fool would allow his enemy to educate his children.” – Malcolm X
Nothing has been more destructive to the long-term prospects of liberty than Marxist infiltration, control of, and indoctrination within our educational system (esp. higher ed & teacher colleges). Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.
ESCAPE is a Coalition of Education Activism Groups, Concerned Parents, and Community Leaders have begun several initiatives to address Kentucky’s Educational System. Beyond legislative actions, these groups have been working to facilitate K-12 homeschooling and helping to start Christian Schools.
Take this ESCAPE Coalition Parent Survey about your interest in School Choice and Alternative Education. Then, print out and popularize this flier to other concerned parents and grandparents (eg hand them out in a blitz at school events, after-school pick-up lines, etc.).
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Educate Teachers on Availability of Affordable, A-political Unions
The largest national Teacher Unions (AFT; NEA/NFT) have become among the largest and most influential financiers of left-wing political candidates and opponents to School Choice. Not to mention, they have been major proponents of their members indoctrinating children in to radical Marxist ideology.
Try handing this flier out at, or taping to the door of, the teachers’ entrances at schools one or two days every week.
