4
Questions
to Ask of Any Program or Policy _1.
Task 1. 4Questions to Ask of Public Funding of Private
Citizens/Schools.
[Original text
in bold. Edits and answers in plain text.]
1. What will success look like? HAPPY PARENTS!
Success will be citizens who are members of one of USA's default
Christian religion's denominations and parents permitted to receive a
tax payer voucher to be used in their trinitarian denominations school
or a nondenominational Christian school. So that
children, parents and families can experience and benefit all of the
original liberties and traditions according to the founders'
design.
- What
are
the measurable definitions of how the program will be called
successful? Success
will be students that develop a Biblical world view after the style of
our Founding Fathers in order to sustain the rights, liberties and
freedoms of our founding documents.
- Is
success defined as increased performance? Yes a return to Classical Christian
Education will be cause for increased student academic
performance.
- Is
success defined as increased production rates or decreased
vandalism? Yes
What
measurable increase can be considered successful? What
percentage
of increase or decrease is considered successful? Ultimately,
how
is the performance increased by this change? Return our cities and state to law and order
and justice.
2. Where has this program been
implemented successfully? Not
where but when. Prior to the Blaine Amendments most schools
had a
religion class or religious nature or objective. Proof of
this
are the contents of the textbooks used at the time, i.e. The New
England Primer and McGuffy's Readers. Even as late as 1950's
Dallas, TX public
high schools had OT and NT Bible classes.
Get the names and telephone numbers of
districts where the program has been a success. Call
up the mayor's office in each district. Explain that you are
a
citizen at another district exploring the pros and cons of the
program. Then, ask what they like and dislike about the
program. What would they do differently? Has the
program
been scrapped somewhere
else?
- Why
was it unsuccessful there? The
program was never unsuccessful. It was legislated, regulated
and
judged to be unlawful to the disappointment and disgust of
parents.
3. What
are the success benchmarks set up by the district? How does
the
district intend to tangibly measure the success or failure of the
program over time? Success
will be determined by standard state tests.
- What
will be the 6-month measure of success? What will be
considered
success after having implemented the program for one-year?
Who
will measure it? How will they measure it? When
will they
measure it? The ultimate
measure after 1 or 2
K-12 graduating cycles would be a full return to the old SAT scores of
the 1950's and 1960's and a marked change in their
character.
4. If the
program doesn't work well, at what point will it be deemed a failure
and greatly modified or removed? Once the measure of success is
established you'll want to know how long the district will push for
success? Most programs take some adjusting once
implemented. That's understandable. But at what
point will
the district stop chasing after success if it is clear that the
previously set measures of
success are not being met? One year? Two
years? Five
years? Spiritual
attrition through generations is a constant. Continually
maintaining spiritual standards from drifting is hard to plan or
prevent. History seems to indicate that once we have drifted
far
enough then the only thing to do is repent!
These four
questions will help you and the community hold the district
accountable. They'll also help the district be more
successful in
establishing clear goals. (emphasis added)
1. The
original document has been edited to suit this
exercise. For the unedited Original Document,
go to this web archive link: www.gtbe.org
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