Educational Reconstructive Freedom

Well-balanced meals need to be provided to each child while in school. No processed foods, sweet drinks, candy, etc., should be permitted. (Mind you that for many of the children, well-balanced meals at school will be all they get). To help address this problem, the SNAP program should not be cut from the funding, but it should be included in the budget, up to the required amount, to tend to the nutritional needs of our children.  A hungry brain cannot function.

Upon school-aged children entering the school system, they should be given a psychological assessment, not just a diagnostic test or benchmark testing, because the information received will be used to accommodate the child’s needs within the classroom.

There should be a requirement in place for the teacher of the rising student to have several home visits within the school year, as well as schedule school visits for the parents. (Looping program)

With raids and school shootings taking place within the school environment, safety is a concern for students and parents. Therefore, SRO precincts should be in-house, and the grounds monitored, surveilled, and patrolled regularly.

Teachers also should be required to have a psychological evaluation to ensure this profession is a good fit or not, and the questions asked should consist of whether the teacher has any biases (prefers not to teach black children, girls, or boys, children with a disability) or has a weakness for young children, such as pedophile tendencies.

The environment of the school. Does the school have clean running water, no lead or rust within the system? Is the air filtration system in good condition? How old is the building? Does the school contain smoke detectors, etc.?  

While there is not a statewide ban on “Black history,” Alabama’s 2021 resolution banning “divisive concepts” associated with critical race theory has created a climate of fear, confusion, and hatred among people, especially educators, affecting how Black history is taught and leading to a decline in Black History Month programming. Though the term “critical race theory” is not typically taught in K-12 schools, this language of the ban has led many to misinterpret Black History, such as the Civil Rights Movement, as a prohibited topic. The fear of facing the truth about our history as a nation, and certainly our state, has caused those to coward and dumb down the country’s history.  This could and would be a gut cause of why many Black children have low test scores, also. Just constantly learning about one ethnic group of people and their accomplishments to the world is backwards, a lie, and inequitable. All children grow when truth is given and not denied.  

The Choose Act pulled $134 million out of the Educational Trust Fund (ETF) in 2025 alone: money redirected from public schools to private schools and homeschooling schools. There is a drawback to the concept of the act, meaning it presents an unfavorable condition and/or another form of school segregation. Homeschooling schools should not be financially supported to allow the families/parents who engage in the decision to teach their children at home to do so as a reward, because in Family government, it is the parents’ duty to teach their children initially. Parents are the children’s first teachers. However, if the child is unable to attend school due to illness, temporary travel, or some psychological reason, then monies awarded or allotted to the parent to teach the child should be permitted, provided the parents have a high school diploma and not a GED. With that order, the parent should find an umbrella school by which the teaching is monitored to ensure the child’s success.

The Choose Act will benefit children with disabilities by funding schools for children with special needs across the state AND PRE-SCHOOLS.

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