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'No Child Left Behind' should be 'No Child Moved Ahead Before His Time'
Saturday, August 23, 2008
If we eliminate grade levels based on age, and create shorter, four week learning periods, the stigma of being held "back" wouldn't exist. Now, to be held back for a school year is debilitating, but repeating a four week course would be less so. Children could be in different levels in different subjects, allowing them to progress at their own speed and excel in areas of strength. Fast learners are not held back, slower learners get the help they need.
The curriculum would also include developing skill sets that would allow every student to have an employable skill; a short order cook, welder, appliance repair, computer repair, etc.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the us. It is through the hard work of individuals like you that God spreads his love. I am very interested in your efforts to promote private sector health care and education opportunities. Could you summarize these in an email to my team ( Web@FosterFriess.com, and please copy me). This would allow us all to benefit from your ideas and is the most efficient way for us all to communicate.
The web team is familiar with similar efforts and we can work together to maximize your effect by leveraging the knowledge and work of others. Networking for private sector solutions is the mission of www.FosterFriess.com and we want to help people like you promote solutions such as those you described in your letter.
We look forward to hearing more about your great work.
God Bless,
Foster***
I am a board certified Internist and Pediatrician and a graduate of the University of Chicago. I am passionately committed to advancing God's Kingdom and for the past 20 years I have devoted myself to establishing Christian health centers that both serve the needs of the poor and advance the Gospel (to date I have helped start or worked with about 10 such sites). I am the co-founder of the Family Christian Health Center which now provides nearly 100,000 visits of care per year to impoverished residents in Chicago's South suburbs. I have also enjoyed the friendship of John Crouch,MD and Thom Scott,MD whom you have supported in their mobile medical ministries.
Early in my work in Chicago my wife and I moved into the inner city where we lived for 9 years. We have been blessed with 7 children, one of whom is in heaven. Nine years ago we established a Classical Christian school, Covenant Christian Academy. Our school is one of the few classical Christian schools serving both wealthy and impoverished White, African American, and Latino families. Over the past 9 years school families have contributed 25,000 of volunteer time to the school.
I am a strong proponent of private sector solutions to the needs of our communities and feel that for community development to succeed we need strong families with men leading their homes, good churches, and Christian schools that help children master the tools of learning and both model the love of Christ and communicate a Christian world view. If all of these are working well in a family the economic opportunities that are still abundantly available in our country are accessible. Unfortunately, many urban families are not able to afford private Christian school education and many urban churches lack good leadership.
I am currently exploring ways to encourage Christian docs to devote more of their time to the care of the poor and have identified solutions that facilitate this in both for- profit and non-profit sectors. I have also identified a way in which health care providers can help fund the needs of private schools through voluntary work in urban clinics. I would like to share the details of this idea with you in the future. I would be most grateful to talk with you further about these ideas. Are you ever in the Chicago area?
Dr.William Crevier
P.S. Check out Nancy Pearcey's book "Total Truth". I think you'll find it a great encouragement to you.