WE CAN MAKE AMERICA EVEN GREATER, AND HELP ALL PEOPLE BECOME THEIR BEST SELVES
What's more important than all our children and their families?
We are the government's "customer" - and it's OUR money they spend. They need to stop wasteful spending and invest in America's families.
The issues above -- and many more -- stem from a lack of essential personal life skills, which should be learned starting at birth as a part of quality early learning, and integrated routinely into K-12 education alongside academic subjects.
Q: Why has human development NOT improved, and even declined, since public education was widely mandated in America in the mid-1850s?
A: The root issue is that we've never addressed a fundamental problem: all families, no matter their situation, need support in teaching their children essential personal and social skills. Parents are expected to guide their children in ways they've never been taught themselves, which is a tall order. Many parents lack the skills they’re supposed to pass on, so it’s unrealistic to expect them to teach something they don’t fully understand or possess themselves.
Q: Why has technology advanced so much, so quickly, since the mid-1850s when education was widely mandated in America?
A: Because as a nation, we acknowledged a need and developed a plan to implement formal academic education for all children in our nation.
Q: How do we improve human development?
A: The same way we acted on the need for academic education, which propelled us technologically. By putting a plan in place to provide quality early learning for every child, they can all begin to learn the essential personal life skills they need; additionally, if we also routinely include curricula that teach these skills in all our schools from kindergarten to 12th grades, all children will continue to learn and hone these skills that are vital to human progress.
Q: That all sounds great, but how do we pay for it?
A: By cutting wasteful government spending, moving the budget around and providing funds from taxpayer dollars to provide quality early learning for all children, and including curricula in all schools from K-12th grades to teach students these skills. Ultimately, our government must acknowledge that taxpayers are the government's "customers", and that our government must spend our money in ways that benefit all Americans, not just some.
Since essential life skills are just as important as academics—and can be learned from birth—we believe and advocate for the following:
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Quality preschool education should be accessible to all children and funded by tax dollars, just like public education.
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Schools should teach essential personal life skills as a dedicated subject, alongside academic subjects, from K-12th grades. Now more than ever, it’s crucial that every school includes essential personal life skills education as part of the core curriculum.
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