Education in North Carolina

So what is the solution?

1. Abolish the Department of Education.
2. Adopt a curriculum that works. This means returning to the same classes taught in the 1880s: teaching reading, mathematics, grammatical writing and the Constitution.
3. Education is not baby sitting. Students can be taught effectively in less time. Schools can be done in two shifts: morning and afternoon. This would decrease our school building and infrastructure in half and eliminate the need for cafeterias.
4. Schools do not assign homework in many cases. Shifts would give students more time to learn by themselves by doing homework while building confidence and knowledge.
5. Eliminate teacher unions.
6. Adopt standards for teachers and evaluate their work. Bad teachers have to be fired.
7. Allow former military with experience in training and teaching to be certified teachers.
8. Get the police out of our schools. Allow teachers who pass firearms training and discipline to conceal carry in schools.
9. No drug policy. Any student caught with drugs on their person is automatically expelled.
10. Cell phones in school should be a privilege. A 3.0 minimum GPA is required to have a cell phone in middle and high schools. No cells phones in elementary schools.
11. Standardized tests for all schools as developed by the state. A student is allowed to fail a year one time. A second failing year means expulsion.
12. Hitting a teacher is an automatic expulsion.
13. Sexual education programs must be reviewed and adopted by parents.
14. Teachers are not counselors: no sexual manipulation is to be allowed by any teaching faculty.

Let’s go back to practical teaching to give our children a better life.

David DeGerolamo