Quality Early Learning For All
We all know that parents want their children to grow up to become productive members of society, get steady, good-paying jobs, and have healthy relationships. It has been proven that our brains develop the most during early childhood. It has also been proven that people who begin to learn essential personal life skills, especially if they are learned starting in a quality preschool setting, are more successful in school and their family and other relationships, as well as in their jobs. Many people believe that things like essential personal life skills should be taught at home. However, one thing we learned during the recent pandemic is that many parents, no matter how loving and caring, simply are not skilled or equipped to be teachers.
At some point in our history, it was decided that it was important for all students in our nation to attend school to learn academic and other subjects.
Since essential personal life skills are as important as academics, and since these skills can be learned starting at birth, we believe that:
- Quality preschool for all children should be paid for with our tax dollars just like public education
- It should be the role of the schools to teach essential personal life skills as a subject just like academics are taught.
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Now more than ever before, all our schools should include pure essential personal life skills as a subject too!
Because most schools currently do not routinely include a curriculum to teach these skills, we must ask these questions:
- Since parents want their children to get and keep good jobs, and since employers want employees who already have these skills, why are pure ESSENTIAL PERSONAL LIFE SKILLS not taught in schools as a stand-alone subject, just as academic subjects are taught?
- Is it not in everyone’s best interest for our schools to include pure ESSENTIAL PERSONAL LIFE SKILLS as a routine subject for all students from grades K-12?
Please go back to our home page and take a look at the chart for some samples of common problems that can be avoided if people had essential personal life skills.
How to use santorofoundation.org
This website is a free resource of material to help improve essential personal life skills. The materials on this website range from individual “sayings” to a full personal life skills curriculum program called Alive2Thrive. To help you become your best self, please review all this site has to offer. It is important you pass this site along to others so they can be the best they can be, and by doing so, we will build a better society.