We're Launching a K-12 School!

[carla8478]

Everyone has been doing a great job advancing our cause for liberty. Up until now the focus has been mostly on adults. But there's some great news!

My colleague and I are launching a k-12 constitutionally-minded school! We will be teaching the kids principles of liberty and the Constitution along with their academics. And the educational program itself is outside of the box and right up our alley. (Sorry for the idiom, I'm from the South ) The program is customizable and allows students to move at their own pace and parents control the amount of homework, allowing for more family time. No more stressing and trying to hit the stores at the last mintue to get supplies for some project that is due the next day.

We have access to a very unique curriculum written by family members of the man who wrote "The Making of America" and "The 5,000 Year Leap."

We are launching our first location in Louisiana, but we need everyone's help. Once we can get this location up and running successfully, it opens us up to expand to other locations across the U.S.

And this will benefit the adults too. Once we have the building we will be able to use it in the evenings to host Constitutional classes and seminars for adults too.

We have created a Facebook Fan Page so you can stay updated with developments on this project. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Denham...r/184605747697

We are negotiating on a lease space now, but we need to raise the funds to initiate the lease and pay for deposits, occupational licenses, etc. If we can raise millions and hundreds of thousands, I know we can raise a few thousand to create this opportunity for our kids. Once the school is up and going it will sustain itself and will not require continued contributions.

I know everyone is saving up for Rand Paul's money bomb and I do not wish to take anything away from this effort so we are just asking for everyone to contribute $5 or $10. If you want to use a debit or credit card, here is our ChipIn: http://dseducationcenter.chipin.com/education-project

If you would like to contribute by mail, please send them to: Carla Messina, 30677 John Dr., Denham Springs, LA 70726

Thank you everyone for your time. Please, please, please help us get this started, the children need this message too.

 

[talkingpointes]

Sounds like a good cause. Bump

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Good luck!

 

[NYgs23]

I like this. We should be talking about more alternatives in schooling. If I may repost my post on libertarian schooling:

Most people, even most libertarians, I'm sure, have a very tough time conceiving of alternative ways to educate children from the traditional "prison school" method of desks, chalkboards, textbooks, bells, exams, divided subjects, and age-segregation. Even most homeschoolers borrow this notion that education must be imposed on children from some authority. In fact, children learn instinctively, through the God-given method of playing. Children, like all human beings, have an amazing ability to run their own lives, if only we'd let them.There are other ways, ways that don't involve everyone being imprisoned and miserable for the better part of their first eighteen years.

Since 1921, democratic schools have attempted to instill the principle of learning through student freedom and choice, beginning with Britain's famous Summerhill School, where all courses are optional. In the United States, institutions like the Albany Free School attempt to put similar principles into practice. While the horrendous No Child Left Behind Act imposes an ever-growing welter of tests and arbitrary standards on the failing and increasingly centralized state-school system, at the Albany Free School, "there are no grades, no mandated curriculum, no standardized tests, no homework and unnecessary rules are generally avoided." Perhaps an even more radical alternative is the Sudbury Valley School and three-dozen offshoots worldwide. At Sudbury, a weekly meeting, in which all students from the age of 4 to 19 have an equal vote with the "staff members," decides nearly every aspect of school governance, including the hiring and firing of the staff members!

A related movement, though more problematic for free-market-supporting libertarians, is the anarchist free skool movement, which attempts to "share skills, information, and knowledge without the limitations of hierarchy and the sterile institutional environment of formal schooling." Many of these schools, brainchildren of the anarcho-syndicalist types, attempt to operate on the basis of a "gift economy" rather than a market economy.

Finally the homeschooling parallel to the the democratic education movement is no doubt the unschooling philosophy, by which children are more or less allowed to teach themselves. Radical unschooling is the more extreme version of this. Here, parents avoid punitive discipline and rule-setting in favor of cooperative and non-coercive methods of interacting with their children.

In the end, only the dynamic competition of a free and voluntary society can determine what methods of child-rearing and child-education are best. Nonetheless, I think it unlikely that the decrepit prison-school paradigm so loved by the central state would survive in such an atmosphere of educational competition. The children, no doubt, would boycott it.

 

[Oyate]

How high do you intend to launch it? What did you make it out of?

 

[t0rnado]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

 

[Uriel999]

Everyone has been doing a great job advancing our cause for liberty. Up until now the focus has been mostly on adults. But there's some great news!

My colleague and I are launching a k-12 constitutionally-minded school! We will be teaching the kids principles of liberty and the Constitution along with their academics. And the educational program itself is outside of the box and right up our alley. (Sorry for the idiom, I'm from the South ) The program is customizable and allows students to move at their own pace and parents control the amount of homework, allowing for more family time. No more stressing and trying to hit the stores at the last mintue to get supplies for some project that is due the next day.

We have access to a very unique curriculum written by family members of the man who wrote "The Making of America" and "The 5,000 Year Leap."

We are launching our first location in Louisiana, but we need everyone's help. Once we can get this location up and running successfully, it opens us up to expand to other locations across the U.S.

And this will benefit the adults too. Once we have the building we will be able to use it in the evenings to host Constitutional classes and seminars for adults too.

We have created a Facebook Fan Page so you can stay updated with developments on this project. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Denham...r/184605747697

We are negotiating on a lease space now, but we need to raise the funds to initiate the lease and pay for deposits, occupational licenses, etc. If we can raise millions and hundreds of thousands, I know we can raise a few thousand to create this opportunity for our kids. Once the school is up and going it will sustain itself and will not require continued contributions.

I know everyone is saving up for Rand Paul's money bomb and I do not wish to take anything away from this effort so we are just asking for everyone to contribute $5 or $10. If you want to use a debit or credit card, here is our ChipIn: http://dseducationcenter.chipin.com/education-project

If you would like to contribute by mail, please send them to: Carla Messina, 30677 John Dr., Denham Springs, LA 70726

Thank you everyone for your time. Please, please, please help us get this started, the children need this message too.

Very cool. Need teachers?

 

[jonahtrainer]

That is awesome. Keep up the good work!

 

[GunnyFreedom]

that is awesome. Keep up the good work!

+1776

 

[ClayTrainor]

This sounds great!

 

[Athan]

Sweet! I'm working on plans for the same type of school myself! Good luck!
For the Republic; For the Cause!

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I am sure you need instructors of marksmanship, logic, and literature...

 

[carla8478]

How high do you intend to launch it? What did you make it out of?

Lol! Well let's see.... If I can find sturdy enough materials maybe we can put one on the moon.

 

[carla8478]

Thank you so much for all of your interest and support. And yes, of course we will need teachers. If anyone is in the Baton Rouge, LA area let me know. If we can get this location going we will eventually be looking for teachers in other areas as well.

Just found out today that a space we want to use to have meetings to get parents coordinated needs a $200 deposit. So please let everyone you know to make small contributions if they can. We need your help to make this happen. Pass the word on.

Thanks again everybody.

 

[andrewh817]

We need more causes like this because if kids are taught these principles early in life, we won't have to focus on adults (who are more resistant to change).

 

[dannno]

Kids working at their own pace based on the parents decisions??

Brilliant!!

This is like homeschooling for parents who don't have the time and/or ability to do it themselves!

I like it.

 

[dr. hfn]

awesome!

 

[carla8478]

Kids working at their own pace based on the parents decisions??

Brilliant!!

This is like homeschooling for parents who don't have the time and/or ability to do it themselves!

I like it.

You got it! It's a homeschooling environment at school. Just think, kids who know how to think for themselves..... What is this world coming to?

 

[carla8478]

We need more causes like this because if kids are taught these principles early in life, we won't have to focus on adults (who are more resistant to change).

Absolutely! That's how we got in this mess to begin with. You should do some research on John Dewey and what he injected into our modern educational system. Not meaning to sound conspiratorial, but those who are in leadership tend to convey their values on their work and those around them and their values are not always the ideal.

(Which is why we need as many programs out there as we can get being run by those who believe in constitutional principles.)

Let's see if I can remember correctly... John Dewey was a relativist, no right or wrong, it's how you feel. So if I felt it was okay to walk up and hit someone... right or wrong was based on how I felt about it. Crazy hunh? Well anyway he worked with some others and actually founded one of the largest teachers colleges in the nation. So of course his beliefs were influential in the material taught.

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

I'd love to help setup some curriculum for Economics that maybe I could teach via Webcam, etc. No, I don't have a fancy plaque that says I'm a PhD in orthodox Neo-Classical Economics, but I sure as hell know my Austrian Economics back and forth; looks at the pile of my Econ books (About 4 foot high ).