Education Site Announces: A Bill of Rights for Students 2012

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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 17, 2012 -- “If you listen to the media,” comments education reformer Bruce Price, “the decline of the public schools is a total mystery. There are dozens of possible explanations and all of them must be debated year after year. Meanwhile, the Education Establishment wants us to know that every problem is somebody else’s fault.”

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Education Site Announces: A Bill of Rights for Students 2012

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“I suspect,” Price says, “that this never-ending confusion is artificial. Let’s cut to the bottom line. Public schools are mediocre for a simple reason. The Education Establishment turned its back on what schools are supposed to be doing. That is: teaching stuff. We need to reverse course.”

Price created a mini-manifesto titled A Bill of Rights for Students 2012, which can be found on Improve-Education.org. Only 900 words long, this statement lays out the skills and pursuits that young students have a right to engage in. AT A MINIMUM, Price emphasizes. This is not the whole curriculum; these are the ten essentials.

According to Price, all students must learn to read, count, and write; then they study geography, history, science, literature, etc. Education should be concerned with knowledge, with learning how the world works, with what happened in the past, and what is happening now. Consider all the good schools throughout history and the good schools in your own city now. Price argues that they are all passionate about the same things: facts and knowledge, the academic and scholarly, the intellectual and cognitive.

The dumb genius of American public education, in Price’s analysis, is to steadily diminish these necessary areas, while amplifying the white noise of social engineering, content-free teaching, psychobabble, required guessing, and mandated fuzziness.

A Bill of Rights for Students 2012 is intended, Price explains, as a handy tool for parents to use when dealing with a local school. They can send over the Bill of Rights and say, “My kids aren’t learning enough. Let’s try what has always worked.”

“Keep something in mind,” Price adds, “the modern public school is a labyrinth of alibis and excuses. It’s rough for parents to understand what’s really going on. Are the people in charge incompetent? Or not deeply interested in education? Or maybe the state has accepted a lot of silly fads, and now the students are being made to fit bad theory.”

How can parents figure it out? The Bill of Rights for Students 2012 is a guide to what should ideally be going on in our schools.

Here are the essential rights:

1) THE RIGHT TO LEARN TO READ.
2) THE RIGHT TO MASTER BASIC ARITHMETIC.
3) THE RIGHT TO WRITE, IN BOTH SENSES.
4) THE RIGHT TO KNOW CORRECT SPELLING.
5) THE RIGHT TO GEOGRAPHY.
6) THE RIGHT TO LITERATURE.
7) THE RIGHT TO HISTORY.
8) THE RIGHT TO SCIENCE.
9) THE RIGHT TO MEMORIZATION.
10) THE RIGHT TO REAL CRITICAL THINKING.

Since the time of John Dewey, Price points out, the Education Establishment has been obsessed with social engineering, and indifferent to what might be called intellectual engineering. This mistake in emphasis needs correcting. The goal of education is not indoctrination but to take each child as far as each child can go. 

Google “A Bill of Rights for Students 2012.” (Or visit http://www.Improve-Education.org/id90.html.)

There is also a short video version. Google : “A Bill of Rights for Students 2012 (The Video).”

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Bruce Deitrick Price is an author, artist, poet, and education reformer. He founded Improve-Education.org in 2005. This site provides critical analysis of education’s main theories and methods. Price can be contacted at Word-Wise Education, 757-455-5020.

More information can be found online at http://www.Improve-Education.org

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