Nine Basic Principles to Reforming Ohio Education
| By Dennis Spisak - Dec 17th, 2009 at 6:55 am EST |
Nine Basic Principles to Reforming Ohio Education
Each student has a fundamental right to a high quality public education.
There must be a process established to define thecomponents of a high quality education. The components must be updated on a regular basis.
Phantom revenue must be eliminated.
An objective process to determine cost must be established.
School funding is a state responsibility.
Educational opportunities must extend from Pre-K through grade 12.
Enforceability of the right of students high quality educational opportunities must be included in the package.
The over-reliance on property tax must be reduced. Property tax relief must be achieved.
The quality of education must not be a function of school district property valuation or district income.
Dennis Spisak for Ohio Governor
Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/
Each student has a fundamental right to a high quality public education.
There must be a process established to define thecomponents of a high quality education. The components must be updated on a regular basis.
Phantom revenue must be eliminated.
An objective process to determine cost must be established.
School funding is a state responsibility.
Educational opportunities must extend from Pre-K through grade 12.
Enforceability of the right of students high quality educational opportunities must be included in the package.
The over-reliance on property tax must be reduced. Property tax relief must be achieved.
The quality of education must not be a function of school district property valuation or district income.
Dennis Spisak for Ohio Governor
Http://www.votespisak.org/governor/
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This is unfair to those in low income areas where the tax base is very weak.
Further, I believe that incompetent teachers should be rooted out. Union or no union!
But the problem goes much deeper than the teachers. The poor education our children get in public schools is a result of a creeping cancer with many causes.
When I went to school, we were taught phonics. It enabled me to learn to read and sound out words for spelling. We were taught conventional math., and that worked equally well.
In those days, discipline was an important part of learning. That no longer exists as it used to be. If we didn't do our work, we got incompletes, or failing grades. We were graded according to our achievements. If we failed, we suffered the consequencies.
We were taught that America is a great country. The history we were taught was that of a courageous and just people who fought valiantly against huge odds for our freedom from tyrrany.
Our founders put together a Constitution that I believe was a very carefully crafted document nothing short of genius!
Since that was done, our politicians have set about destroying it, little by little, so subtly that most didn't notice. Now, when the totality of what they have done , and continue to do, is vewed in context, it is frightening, and even sickening!
Our children are taught that America is bad. It is made to appear unjust in it's history, and no effort is spared to denigrate it. It's no wonder our schools turn out so many uneducated misfits.
Until we carve out this cancer and get back to teaching the basics, and what is good about America, this travesty will continue.
It's high time we sifted out the extreme left from our schools at every level. It's time to concentrate on teaching our children as schools were intended to do, and stop using them for propaganda!