God-Emperor Trump’s Administration will, one hopes, cast a baleful eye upon that nest of Commie indoctrination known as the Department of Education, prior to shutting it down.
One hopes.
However, as these festering cockroach nests are almost impossible to eradicate completely (without the introduction of machine guns, anyway), there might be a way to cause wholesale resignations among the cockroaches themselves, by making their jobs impossible (for them).
Such as by implementing the following (drawn from any decent homeschooling curriculum):
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to fill in the last two blanks.
Basic statistics and media literacy.
1) U.S. Constitution.
2) History, warts and all.
(1) What was called “Americanism vs Communism” when I took it in ’83 as a graduation requirement. (John Locke, Adam Smith, etc)
(2) Logic and debate. (informally known as “social media inoculation”)
Methods of generating and accumulating wealth.
History, Science, Mathematics.
Basic: Logic. History (World and US), Civics. Mandatory Physical Fitness (you better be in a wheelchair to avoid it, segregated by sex)
Advanced: Debate, Foreign Language (this needs to start in Elementary, & sadly it’ll probably need to be Mexican Spanish).
I think most of what you’ve described above are probably covered by what is called a “Classical” education. But we’re too smart for such anachronisms now.
Basic: Logic. History (World and US), Civics. Mandatory Physical Fitness (you better be in a wheelchair to avoid it, segregated by sex)
Advanced: Debate, Foreign Language (this needs to start in Elementary, & sadly it’ll probably need to be Mexican Spanish).
I think most of what you’ve described above are probably covered by what is called a “Classical” education. But we’re too smart for such anachronisms now.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Self Knowledge.
Self Control.
1 – GENERAL AROUND THE HOUSE CHORES / MACHINES / TOOLS / TRASH / SANITATION
– Oil changes on yard machines and small engines (Lawn mowers, generators, snowblowers).
– How to store fuel and what fuel to store long term (100% vs pump gas, gas additives etc).
– Basic lawn mowing and leaf / branch / debris cleanup & Basic snow clean up – walkway sanding etc
– Using a portable generator to keep power to either mission critical appliances and devices (Refrigerators until you can use the cold stuff up / medical devices if anyone in the home needs one – & how to connect and use a transfer switch properly if you have a 30 or 50 amp outlet for a generator on your home for whole house power using a portable generator).
– Cleanup and removal of garbage, basic sanitation of key areas in and around home
2 – Basic First Aid & CPR / General Care for Humans AND domestic pets and animals
– BLS (Basic Life Support) (Stop the bleeding and start the breathing)
– CPR
– Wound care and basic injury assessment (Changing dressings, knowing when and when not to move someone basic on injury severity
– How to feed, clean up after, comfort and general care for Cats, Dogs, whatever domestic animal you have. Everyone in the house with an animal should have basic knowledge specific to any animals in your home so that anyone in the home can step up and care for the animals, as domestic animals are not able to 100% take care of themselves.
Pick up 6 things and make a small do it yourself medical kit (Don’t bother with those pre made junk ones at retail stores)
1 – QuikClot
2 – gauze
3 – Medical tape
4 – CPR mask
5 – Rubber gloves
6 – Sheers Scissors
You can always add more stuff, but these 6 are the most basic things NEEDED.
Kim – Question for you Sir –
Under your topic “Self Defense” – can I assume this course will include
– How to field strip firearms
– How to replace BASIC wear items (recoil springs, trigger springs)
– How to clean guns
I ask because I assume yes – but wanted to mention it as, I know a few friends who can load and shoot a gun, but ask them to clean it or replace a spring or remove grips and they look at you like you spent an extended amount of time at Chernobyl farms and they are admiring the 3 heads growing out of your neck. Sad but true.
Field stripping and basic repair are as much a part of shooting as learning trigger control and safety.
Common sense.
Foreign language (or Latin), playing a musical instrument (and NOT that friggin’ flutophone).
Education on how not to end up a total fuck-up like Hunter Biden
Lesson 1 – Don’t do drugs kids
Lesson 2 – Don’t fuck your dead brothers wife
Don’t puff, just pass.
Leave the dope smokin to Hunter.
And driver’s education
You covered taxes. (Just one of many issues with soon to be former housemate. Seriously, the man is 40 and claims he can’t figure out how to file a 1040ez with one only W2?) I’d combine taxes with personal finance.
That would give me three slots.
Basic map reading/orienteering.
Basic shop, woodworking, plumbing, etc, enough for minor home repair/improvement. A basic shelf unit, fixing a stairs on the back porch sort of thing.
What used to be called Home Ec. Household cleaning, sewing, fabric and clothing manufacture and repair, perhaps basic knitting, crochet, etc.
Reading and “math” (more title inflation – it’s arithmetic; math has variables) as in arithmetic, including memorizing multiplication tables and enough rote learning that one has a sense of what the order of magnitude of something should be vs a a slip of a decimal point, all with emphasis on no social promotions. Fail, repeat and repeat the grade until mastered.
If one can read well and have a good sense of numbers, the world’s your oyster. Grow up illiterate and innumerate and you’ll be an unemployable, untrainable burden whose options are drugs or other forms of crime.