American: Focus OnEDUCATION "F"

White Paper On the Drawing Board

2012-02-22T21:31:00.002-06:00

Things in the Education Front are slow right now, so I am using this time to write a White Paper - Creating Commonality In Education Across All 50 States. I am hoping to have this paper completed by the end of March. I personally believe that one of the biggest problems with education is the lack of Common Requirements from not only state to state, but city to city.

So until then, this will be quiet unless something pops up.

From the Desk of J Albert

Never forget, USA Starts With US and U!
Not Obama & Biden

KISS It, Why Education Is Noneducational.

2012-02-05T02:58:00.000-06:00

KISS, to some it means Keep it simple stupid, but in education it should be KEEP IT SUPER SIMPLE. Simple works more times that trying to take a complicated direction. Oh, it is not a complicated direction to a good teacher, or especially a bad teacher who really does not know the material and is the one that the KISS is meant for.

If you show the simplest way first, then help those that are having a problem after you show that method, I kind of bet that you will not be having that many students needing help. The sad thing is that we are no longer teaching reality classes, we are teaching to an "Idealized State Test" and have forgotten what teaching the basics every class every year and building upon those basic concepts create a better learning environment.

Discipline is missing. Why? The parents are afraid to be parents and threaten the school with legal action if the school punishes their children. If You are not, the school is not, then who is disciplining your child. Believing your student is going to give you the correct information is a waste of time. They are in trouble. Their goal is to minimize.

Parents need to step up and be involved. Hard to say when most of the time both parents are working due to the cost of the "Stuff" we want in our lives. You can tell the students that have parents that do not focus on the stuff and focus on their children, at home, at school, and anywhere else that child is.

I can usually tell you within a few yards where my daughters are because they know that if I don't know, I can not help them. My job as a parent is not to make my children my best friends, it is to guide them and help them become better than we are. I hated the day I first heard about "No Child Left Behind."

Children are going to be left behind. Saying it won't happen means we are not willing to be honest with our children and teach them from day one that there are consequences for their actions. Prisons in this country are filling up with younger and younger prisoners in both sexes. Instead of worrying if they can play a sport, make sure they can read the playbook first.

It is up to you and no one else to be the guide to your children. Guide with positive words, uplifting ideas and setting an example that you know you would be proud of if you were the mom you had or wanted to have. Do not perpetuate mistakes from your parents to the next generation. Make the problems end here and now.

From the Desk of J Albert

Never forget, USA Starts With US and U!
Not Obama & Biden

Time News Feed to Time Ideas

2012-01-16T05:54:00.000-06:00

Article from: "This Is My Opinion, NOT News!" by J Albert

While reading an article on Stephen Colbert's transfer of his Super-PAC to John Stewart on the Time News Feed, I noticed a well placed ad about Time article "TIME's 12 Education Activists for 2012." I decided that that article looked more impressive than what I was reading since as many of you know, Education is a topic on my mind these days.

And I was impressed with the first part of the article was about two undergraduates at Princeton, Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin, who decided it was the time out of their education to shine the light on education. These two young ladies started Students for Education Reform. I hope you take a few minutes to read about the work that they are doing. Education is key and we need to bring it back under control in every state and city in this country.

When I clicked on the little arrow at the top, the next part of the story was on Matt Damon who has taken up the call in support of his mother. In reading this part of the article, I felt that for once Time was getting some things right. Study's on the impacts of No Child Left Behind does not cause undo stress on teachers. Maybe their activism as a pooled resource in the elections across the country or forgetting about teaching their students to go out and picket against laws that are needed to hold check the unrestrained Unions across the country.

Then Time became its typical self. The next person is John Danner: The Tech Guy. Not really sure who he is, but what he is doing with his public charter schools in California. Then Time became its typical self. The next positions were really suck up position for the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan and others in screen and unions. Well, I call a suck up a suck up when I see it. The Federal Government's Department of Education has done so much harm to education over the last 7 years. No child left behind seemed to show that many teachers were left behind.

The rest of the collection was typical. Data Cruncher, a teacher union president, and well you get the picture. What has anyone but the first two ladies, Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin, have done with their real efforts to make substantial change to our education system. We don't need movie stars, unless they have a degree in education and have been working in the trenches to better education.

The Real Problem with Education is easy to see. We only hear about it maybe during local elections. It hits the national scene every 4 years as the Presidential Campaigns are in full swing. Liberals think they are the party of the poor and less fortunate, when in fact the Liberals have done so much wrong in their attempts at social engineering with the help of those that claim to be Conservatives all of which are proud to be "Progressives."

Education starts at home and ends at home. The teacher is the guide and the parent is behind them with support. Anyone who got into education to make money does great in the local and state level teacher unions. Teacher should be tested every year to ensure that they have the competency to teach the classes that they do.

While Time thinks that education needs Activist, I am here to say that what we need is the parent or parents or family groups need to step up and take education out of the public hands and begin the one room neighborhood school where real education happened and still happens today. Follow us at AMERICAN: Focus On Education 'F' where we will be posting this article and more articles on how to improve Education in America, one child at a time.

From the Desk of J Albert

Never forget, USA Starts With US and U!

Let's Start The New Year With A Bang For Education

2011-12-30T06:00:00.000-06:00

Are you ready for classes to start back? For most students and family's, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 will be the start of the second quarter of school. Are you as a parent and family ready for school to start? Do you have everything together? Do your children know what to do when place in a bad situation? Remember that school is about learning the Facts. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, not Obama songs, indoctrination, or any class warfare.

If the school has a new handbook and the information inside does not agree with you, don't sign it. They have to educate your child no matter what. They will just have to contact you for everything that they want to do with or use your child in. If they try to force you to sign the school handbook, don't let them.

Know your rights as the parent. I have had one parent that went through and struck out everything that the district was not allowed to do with or to their son. Signed the bottom saying that he only agrees to the areas that are not marked through. That was 15 sentences out of the whole 45 page student handbook.

Remember, you are the parent and the only one responsible for your family. It is up to you to stand tall and fight for what you feel and know are your rights as the parent. If things get abusive at the school for retaliation, fight back even harder.

Make sure that other parents are aware of the bad areas within the school handbook. Just don't refuse to sign a good one. Read it carefully. I would suggest that if there are a group of you that are concerned, take it to a lawyer and have them review the document to ensure that your parental rights are not taken away.

An email suggested that I am a radical. I had to sit there and think about that. Final conclusion I came up with is that is a good name. I prefer to be called an Education Patriot, but education radical kind of sounds nice in its own way. From our family to you and yours. Have a happy, healthy and prosperous New Capitalistic Year.

From the Desk of J Albert

Never forget, USA Starts With US and U!

Educating Our Future Needs YOU!

2011-12-25T11:02:00.001-06:00

Are you looking for a place to let out that energy on the subject of education? If so, we need you. If you like to do research, are a great editor, good at checking and validating facts, or a writer looking for a place to share your Education Knowledge, We Need You here at American - Focus On Education. At this point in time we are not looking to include this Micro Topic Specific Website into the new format simply because we do not now if there is an interest out there that we can draw support to make this even better.

Well, this is probably the shortest article by far. If you are up reading, have a Happy and Blessed Christmas. Merry Christmas.

From the Desk of J Albert

Never forget, USA Starts With US and U!

Why A Micro Topic Specific Website On Education?

2011-12-22T05:58:00.000-06:00

This new type of blog has been called by my daughters and myself Micro Topic Specific Website. Micro because the sites are run on a free platform and not with our hosting sites. Micro Topic, the subject is short, specific and looks like an impossible burden on someone. Everything on this blog will kept on topic. (why we felt Specific was important.) Off topics will have their article/comment returned with a suggested sites for your post/comment/blog we host or feel is a better match. Let's get Started.

Welcome To Your New Forum Specifically On Education in America

Welcome to the home of American FOCUS On EDUCATION. This blog will cover the national to School level of Commentary's and and Calls to Action that will be needed to turn our nations public and private schools and "Education" in general into places of learning.

Our Country is in peril with a strong possibility that we will be in bondage to China for many generations to come if we do not do two critical things. Number ONE: We must pay our debt off quickly as a nation. This will mean hardships and tough times ahead. Nothing like what is to come if we don't get this moving now. Number TWO: We must become the best educated and take back our leadership roles in Manufacturing, Designing, Discovery, and every existing science and those we have not even thought of yet. We have to educate our children like never has happened in this country before.

Here is the good news, we can do it. Here is the bad news. We cannot do it with the exiting models of indoctrination over real education. Education must start with and end up with these three areas that all others come out of. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic are the 3R's of Education, Yesterday, Today and most definitely for tomorrow. The 3R's are not going to be slang to make fun of country folk because their kids said "reeding, ritting, and rithmetic".

You can not teach just these subjects, but every subject requires at minimum 2 of these proficient by grade 6, 12 to 13 years of age. How do we get there from where we are today? One Step At A Time. Introduction of the 4C's - Consistency, Complexity, Community, & Compassion are the cornerstones of the foundation for education. We must put the cornerstones back where they belong. There are three more C's. Competition that we will add to the C's as we move forward. To be competitive you must master the 3rd and 4th C along with the 6th C, Common Sense. In the area of high and college, the last of the C's, good 'ol Number 7, the most difficult to attain will be visualize, Conceptualize, homogenize, pasteurize, and cauterize by our young American Students so that they will find 7th C, Clarity. Clarity of Purpose, of who and what they are, and also the greatest Clarity of all, their liberties, freedoms, and justice.

The 3 "R's" The 7 "C's"

Reading Consistency Competition

Writing Complexity Common Sense

Arithmetic Community Clarity

Compassion

The 3 "R's"	The 7	"C's"
Reading	Consistency	Competition
Writing	Complexity	Common Sense
Arithmetic	Community	Clarity
	Compassion

Let me be very clear,this is not just a focus, this is a FOCUS. As one person at a near by table said about a different subject, it fits right in here. "Their Company need to stop trying to under bid us. Every single time they do, we have to do cleanup. They are losing battle after battle and have no idea that we are not in the war with them. They are beating and defeating themselves." Read that last 2 sentences. Isn't that what has happened with Education?

Why don't the School District Administrators have to carry malpractice insurance? I am joking. I don't understand districts where there are more administrators to students than there are teachers to students. Take a look on the web to find out the staffing ratios for your district. Follow the trails. Find all the crumbs of corruption. Come here and pass the information around so others can see if their district is doing the same thing.

So in Closing this first article for our new "micro topic specific site," I hope that you will get involved over the next month to help us defeat anyone and any group (that means labor unions) that stand in the way of this country returning to the Greatness that was left to us by our forefathers.

From the Desk of J Albert

Never forget, USA Starts With US and U!