I was supposed to tell you about our Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant Class that will be starting next week with one of my accountants, Mauricio Martinez, who is also an Internet expert. (Can you imagine finding an accountant and an Internet marketing expert in one person?)
If you are serious about preparing your students to be financially literate enough to take care of themselves through their own home business in the future, they simply MUST understand basic accounting.
I’ve been looking for a teacher qualified to teach this class ever since we started training Virtual Assistants to work from home years ago, but couldn’t find one. Then right under my nose, I hit pay dirt when I discussed the issue with Mauricio over lunch at a recent live event.
The deadline to register your WHOLE FAMILY for his 6-week class is midnight, Sunday, March 7. And even though the entire class is virtual, space is limited so grab your seats as soon as you can.
But here’s what I really wanted to tell you today.
President Obama has just promised “a share of $900 million in new federal aid to schools that improve their graduation rates and post major gains in academic achievement.”
In this article, he proposes 4 options to improve public schools:
1. Turnaround model – ” require low-performing schools to replace their principal and half their staffs”
2. Restart approach – “replace the school altogether with a charter system”
3. Closure strategy – “shutter the struggling school and require district administrators to enroll its former students in better-performing institutions”
4. Transformation plan – “prescribe a series of changes to school curricula, governance and structure”
As an advocate of excellent education, the daughter of two professional educators, and a mother of 7 children, I want to see our public education system prepare its students successfully to enter the work force as contributors, not just consumers.
Yet this proposed plan appears to be just another government bailout that will not directly address the problems faced by the education world, yet will cost tax-payers almost another billion dollars that could be better spent by the educators and administrators themselves.
So here are 7 suggestions from a concerned mother on how to improve education without spending a dime:
1. The first step in solving this ongoing dilemma, which is only getting worse no matter how many dollars we throw at it, is to re-instate God and acknowledge Him as the head of true education. This country was founded on Christian principles whether we acknowledge it or not. When we voted God out of our schools, He removed His blessing and test scores began to plummet.
Whether individuals are Christian or not, we can not deny our heritage. We are the greatest country that has ever existed because we were founded on Christian principles by men of vision.
2. Give local administrators more power with fewer regulations to make decisions that affect their schools.
3. Educate and qualify teachers better, then give them the power to govern classes that they once had.
4. When a parent delegates authority to a teacher for the education of a student, the parent should support the instructor’s decisions and actions, not sue the teacher. Parents should also be diligent to make sure the student respects the teacher by completing home work correctly and on time. Administrators should also support their instructors.
5. Students should realize that when they don’t commit themselves to getting a good education which is provided free to them as a citizen of the U.S., they will more than likely not be able to provide for themselves and those who become dependent on them. When they are 40, they will look back and realize they did not contribute to society in a special way that only they were capable of. If they become dependent on government assistance, they will find themselves stuck in a rat race that keeps them living at poverty level with little chance of escape.
I know hardly anyone will agree with this but this is what I have learned after spending thousands of dollars on the education of myself and my children.
6. Require students to invest in their education at some point. Every student I have ever met has never appreciated the education he or she received as much as the student who had to pay for it. We have become so accustomed to free education that most of us now believe it is a right. It is not. Free education is a privilege America offers to its students. Instead of being grateful for it, we have come to mock it.
7. Take the administration of public education out of the hands of the federal government and give it back to the states, counties and local school districts where it belongs. If we did that, we wouldn’t need that new education bailout package.
I welcome your comments.
So many books, so little time…
Rhea!
who believes education with vision is the key to all success
P.S. If you’re looking for Real Education, check out our Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant Class.
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and he is one of my accountants. Plus, he is one of the very few accountants I know who is Internet-savvy!