Wherever there can be found accountability and balanced discipline, young students are proving to be more successful, beginning in school K-8 grades and lasts through college. In fact, we are seeing life long learning habits and the tendency of students to enjoy learning and understand its future implications for success in life. Private Catholic schools have proven that for half of what it cost to send a student to public school that their results are dramatically better. It seems the teaching of moral ethics, not religion per se, but giving children a value system, which seems to be totally absent from public schools. The K-8 school that is entirely online works within the same principles of involving the parents and family in a support system for their young student, much in the same way the Catholic schools deeply involve parents in their child's schooling. The public schools are toying with the idea of going online to save money on courses the public schools find difficult to support. So what we are seeing is a blended learning model, whereas a private online K-8 school provides education to other schools in order to assist where they seem to need it most, serving the gifted and the special needs children. A virtual learning academy such as Mistacres in NH has been successful at helping other elementary schools meet their students' needs effectively. Mistacres also provides homeschooling support either by a class or two or all areas of study.

This week elementary online education and high school virtual charter schools are being seriously looked at because there’s no time to waste in producing students that are prepared to succeed. The truth is out, the more that’s been spent on public education the dumber our kids are getting compared to other countries.  Fixing the problem is not likely to happen with a union friendly President and teachers unions looking out for adults and not children.  The Students First Organization is drawing support, and we encourage every parent to support Students First because they are taking hold at the grass roots level to mount a powerful campaign in every state, to change the power structure in favor of students first.

 

In India, the people are dirt poor, but they turn out more highly educated people that are grateful to work for less in all kinds of technical fields.  The students in India that do best are not coming from big investment in schools, they learn best from teachers who don’t get to eat otherwise.  China and Japan turn out educated students on the values of family influence, discipline and rote repetition in the early years in order that youngsters reach a level of mastery.  Then the student starts to love the subject because basic mastery encourages them to learn more and more.  Our charter schools have proven to produce educated kids, while the public schools produce less educated, right down to the degree of giving diplomas to graduates who can’t read.  The teachers unions are very accountable for supporting teachers and getting everything for them and giving them protection from being held accountable for their students learning.  Teachers just blame the teacher who came before.  The virtual school k 8 concepts that online schools such as Mistacres, work because individualized learning is tailored around the way a student learns, so the teacher and curriculum is configured to fit the child and not the other way around.