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As President I will seek to set up an alternative public school in some district where I can get at least 4096 parents of five-year-olds to agree to the contract system.
Kindergarten will be called first grade. There will be 25 grades in all.
The marks given in class will be called "scores", not grades, as the term grade is misleading in that context.
At the end of each grade the grade as a whole will be given a general intelligence test of some complexity, and it will include questions on material not covered in the curriculum, since that will show whether a student is in the habit of learning. Students who score above that grade's average will be promoted two grades. Students who score below that grade's average will be promoted one grade.
Of every 4096 students in first grade, one can reach 25th grade in the 13th year, while one will graduate after 13 years from 13th grade. Everybody stays in up to 13 years, but anyone may choose to graduate anytime after completing 13th grade. This will mean some very sharp 12-year-old graduates are possible.
This will all be happening on one walloping big campus.
Parents of the students here will sign contracts allowing any teacher whose class is being disrupted to summarily expel any student responsible, condemning the student to our current public school system, or to homeschooling if the public demands more of these schools. (I give that twelve years.)
Teachers will receive pay each pay period, with an equal sum as a bonus at the end of the 8-month school year, but any who allow a student to leave a given grade unable to meet minimal standards for that grade will be dismissed and forfeit the bonus. For example, any student who cannot read phonetically, working out the pronunciation of new words, would not meet minimal standards at the end of first grade.
School will be six hours. Students will be fed on arrival, and this food will include meat. After three hours they will be fed again, also including meat. At least one of these daily portions of meat will be beef, so that taurine will be available to promote formation of new dendrite connections. That is, learning.
The DHS will arrest people who protest this school as terrorists, since they are attempting to sabotage American intellectual development. (The fact that these will mostly be either union teachers or people paid by the unions is pure lagniappe.)
I expect assassination attempts after I do this.
Kindergarten will be called first grade. There will be 25 grades in all.
The marks given in class will be called "scores", not grades, as the term grade is misleading in that context.
At the end of each grade the grade as a whole will be given a general intelligence test of some complexity, and it will include questions on material not covered in the curriculum, since that will show whether a student is in the habit of learning. Students who score above that grade's average will be promoted two grades. Students who score below that grade's average will be promoted one grade.
Of every 4096 students in first grade, one can reach 25th grade in the 13th year, while one will graduate after 13 years from 13th grade. Everybody stays in up to 13 years, but anyone may choose to graduate anytime after completing 13th grade. This will mean some very sharp 12-year-old graduates are possible.
This will all be happening on one walloping big campus.
Parents of the students here will sign contracts allowing any teacher whose class is being disrupted to summarily expel any student responsible, condemning the student to our current public school system, or to homeschooling if the public demands more of these schools. (I give that twelve years.)
Teachers will receive pay each pay period, with an equal sum as a bonus at the end of the 8-month school year, but any who allow a student to leave a given grade unable to meet minimal standards for that grade will be dismissed and forfeit the bonus. For example, any student who cannot read phonetically, working out the pronunciation of new words, would not meet minimal standards at the end of first grade.
School will be six hours. Students will be fed on arrival, and this food will include meat. After three hours they will be fed again, also including meat. At least one of these daily portions of meat will be beef, so that taurine will be available to promote formation of new dendrite connections. That is, learning.
The DHS will arrest people who protest this school as terrorists, since they are attempting to sabotage American intellectual development. (The fact that these will mostly be either union teachers or people paid by the unions is pure lagniappe.)
I expect assassination attempts after I do this.