Education Recommendations

Provide Federal matching funds for summer school and after school programs in ethics, typing, statistics, English style, English grammar, informal logic, home economics, strength training, interval training, and vocational education.

Require full year public school students to attend a mean of at least 1150 hours in grades one through six, except during natural disasters or other emergencies.

Using federal funds, create a $1.90 per semester hour federal self-study university, including grad school. Provide all study materials online for free, including documentary-style lectures. Require students to take in person tests, requiring state photo ID or federal photo ID proof of self before taking tests. Ban the university from charging students for services beyond tuition, transcripts, and graduation services. Ban the university from having intercollegiate sports. Demand the university take steps to ensure at least 45 percent of its graduates perform at least at the fortieth percentile on non-university professional exams. Implement an $88,000 maximum salary at the university for all individuals. Ban all professors from assigning any text costing the anyone more than $40. Maintain at least a 39 to one student to faculty ratio and 32 to one faculty to administrator ratio. Provide few humanities and social science classes, except logic and long-term consequentialist ethics. 

Create hundreds of subject area tests similar to CLEP tests, except for laboratory classes, requiring baccalaureate granting publicly funded schools to give college credits to test takers scoring above the medians of students who have passed the courses and taken the subject tests within 30 days after finishing the courses. Require taking of CLEP and CLEP-like tests at test centers.

Eliminate government funded bilingual education programs.

Ban teacher evaluations based on student evaluations and test score results.

Require would be education majors to spend 280 clock hours substitute teaching at public schools having Hispanic or African-American majorities before their junior post-secondary year. Ban state rules requiring a specific number of college hours before substitute teaching.

Create a valid in every state federal teacher certification system, having an application fee of not more than $14.

Prohibit all schools receiving public funds, including tax entitlements, from requiring students to read from or listen to or recite from any religious text.

Eliminate government payments to the so-called Teach for America and other parasitic middlemen.

Prohibit government funding for for-profit schools. Prohibit government funding for any primary or secondary educational entity paying any non-physician more than twice the local median income per year. Prohibit government funding for religious schools.

Prohibit media company mergers and acquisitions exceeding $800,000.

Eliminate Hope Scholarships. (Hope scholarships encourage price gouging by colleges. They are unjust to those who do not go to college. College grads earn more over their lifetimes. They encourage people to attend college who would otherwise be doing better things with their lives. Many college degrees create no overall ethical benefits.)

Ban school specific lawsuits against teachers, K-12 schools, and school districts, except when assaults or physical injuries occur.

Require national end of course exams in all public school courses. Require that national exams be 15 percent of final grades. Test public school students in math and reading in the first, fourth, and eighth grades. Publish statistical reports of the performance of all schools.

Remove LCD and other glowing screens from public primary and secondary classrooms, except in computer and vocational classrooms.

During unplanned school closures, emphasize book, audio, and paper assignments much more than screen lessons.

Create advanced placement courses for songwriting, human genetics, public health, and copy editing, along with human anatomy and physiology. 

Pay students $500 in federal funds for each math, science, songwriting, and copy editing AP course they earn both a B or higher course end grade for and four or higher AP test score for, except social science courses. 

Permit homeschooled students to take AP tests. 

Require all publicly funded post-secondary schools to give at least four semester credits or trimester equivalent to students for each AP test they earn a four or five on.

Ban post-secondary schools from paying retirement benefits to current and former non-medical administrators and non-medical tenured professors as a bit of justice for their massive frauds against students and societies. Distribute their pension funds to underemployed, school debt having former students.

Require publicly funded post-secondary schools to accept all earned credits from a transferring student or not admit the transferring student.

Provide federal funding for further research on:

1. Know Your Body health ed programs at public primary schools but removing the self-esteem building parts of the programs.
2. Life Skills Training or Project ALERT or both.
3. Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation Programs.
4. GEARUP.

Ban government funded primary and secondary schools from having foreign language requirements. Prohibit post-secondary schools from having foreign language requirements for non-foreign language and non-international relations students.

Prohibit the Department of Defense from partnering with for-profit feature films and television.

Prohibit schools from charging mandatory student activities fees and similar fees.

Open non-medical licensing and licensing exams to individuals completing self-study courses.

Ban any publicly funded schooling institution from purchasing for students any textbook costing more than $40. Prohibit any publicly funded schooling institution from requiring the purchase by students of any textbook costing more than $40.

Pass the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2009.

Require secondary schools and public vocational schools to teach marketable, in demand skills to non-college track students.

Eliminate government funding for secondary and post-secondary schools failing to grade solely on merit.

Require all publicly funded logic and ethics classes to teach these important principles of ethics:

1. Pursue alternatives having sufficiently beneficial overall results or pursue least harmful alternatives in Hobson's choices, except in rare cases when combinations of rules and results outweigh only results.
2. Make sufficient open-minded searches for good points.
3. Weigh accurately the good points from all relevant sides against each other, regardless of irrelevant social and other pressures to reflexively reject some sides and give extra weight to preferred sides. Use something similar to the direct rating method for comparing good points from various sides.
4. Treat fallacies as worthless to argument weight, not as strikes against an argument.
5. Keep looking for more important problems.
6. Treat ethical behavior as more important than all other traits combined.

Create an $9,900 annual school year voucher for parents homeschooling children from their sixth birthday until their fourteenth, including schooling done in the homes of friends and other community members, provided such children score in the top half of their age groups on required year end standardized academic tests, excluding students having down syndrome, closed head injuries, and other large, easily identifiable cognitive deficits from such tests. Prorate the voucher for children spending less than the full school year being homeschooled. Create a $3,800 per year homeschool voucher from the day after their fourteenth birthday to their seventeenth birthday.

Prohibit any public post-secondary school from naming any object in honor of their athletes or administrators they employed in the past 50 years.

Implement a 99 percent annual wealth tax on non-vocational school endowments. Send the money to food banks, homeless shelters, pathogen fighting organizations, and individuals with hourly wages below 13 dollars per hour.

Prohibit secondary and post-secondary education to prisoners, except vocational education.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from funding political groups.

Require public secondary schools to provide healthy students with one class hour each year of lower body strength training and interval training on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, upper body training and health education on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with upper body homework on Saturdays. Include at least three class hours of epidemiology per year with the health lessons.

Require the following courses for public high school graduation, in addition to the above health and physical education classes, beginning four years from now: half year each of grammar, biology, statistics, anti-corruption, anti-oligarchy, and home economics, plus one year each of informal logic and long-term consequentialist ethics. Require the statistics course to include at least two weeks of ethically risk neutral personal finance. Make other high school courses electives.

Switch medical school training to six years with no undergrad requirements, meaning most future physicians would enter medical school straight from high school. Likewise eliminate undergrad requirements for law, dental, veterinary, and physician assistant schooling. Eliminate most non-nursing class requirements to become registered nurses, making them three year programs. Also permit obtaining law credentials through testing, self-study, and apprenticeships.

Require employers providing employee tuition assistance to provide similar non-tuition remuneration to other employees.

Give primary and secondary teachers the right to temporarily or permanently remove students from their classrooms. Ban dumping removed students on other teachers without the approval of such teachers. Require such students to drop out or serve in school suspensions.

Require mechanical typewriters for typing classes.

Ban mainstreaming of emotionally impaired students.

Require students to be in the academic top 25 percent in middle school grades or at least one academic standardized test to attend publicly funded college track post-primary schools.

Permit individuals above the age of 11 to earn and receive General Equivalency Diplomas.

Require standardized test proctoring by individuals unaffiliated with students taking the tests. Require non-public school primary and secondary students to take IQ tests. Require non-public school primary and secondary students, attending non-public schools for at least the previous 180 school days, scoring at least 20 percentile points lower than their IQ percentile positions on year end academic tests to return to public schools the next school year, except when graduating, dropping out or taking medical absences.

Repeal Common Core, Race to the Top, Every Student Succeeds Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Bilingual Education Act, and Improving America's Schools Act of 1994.

Eliminate public school kindergarten.

Permit individuals employed for more than 600 hours in the last 100 days to receive high school diplomas after completing tenth grade.

Require public schools to give academic letter or numerical grades for every student enrolled at least 60 days.

Ban each post-secondary school from continuing to offer a degree in a field when fewer than 70 percent of that school's working age graduates from that field find employment in that field.

Lower the age students may voluntarily drop out to 12. Require students dropping out before their eighteenth birthday to be employed at least 30 hours per week at least 44 weeks per year. Or perform community service or attend other schooling at least 30 hours per week at least 44 weeks per year.

Ban government entities from requiring master's or other advanced degrees for K-12 teachers and administrators.

Ban public funded primary and secondary schools from paying graduate degree having teachers more because they have graduate degrees.

Permit national teaching licenses to associate degree citizen applicants having no felony arrests and no history of being fired by schools, who score in the top 30 percent of the NTE, along with having at least 280 clock hours substitute teaching.

Require the number of faculty at public post-secondary schools to out number the number of administrators paid more than the lowest paid faculty member by at least 38 to one, except in medical fields.

Prohibit public post-secondary schools from funding the political and or entertainment activities of students and administrators.

Ban individuals older than their 19th birthdays from starting a semester at public primary and secondary schools.

End federal spending on foreign media.

Ban schools from accepting financial donations from foreign and multinational entities.

Prohibit employees of publicly owned post-secondary schools from receiving remuneration for advertising appearances.

Require all businesses moving employment outside the United States to pay at least 62 percent of costs for all local, state, and Federal trade adjustment assistance programs.

Eliminate government funding for causal attempt social science research that fails to make well-reasoned efforts to control for or tease out genetic factors where relevant.

Ban states and local governments from reducing mean class sizes below 21 students per classroom.

Ban schools from prohibiting students in the top seven percent in grades and or standardized test scores from choosing to skip grades.

Eliminate Federal consent decrees and disparate impact policies.

Prohibit political appointees and state governments from banning or minimizing suspensions and expulsions.

Prohibit post-secondary schools from charging more than 13 times the local median hourly wage per semester hour or trimester equivalent, seven times the local median hourly wage per semester hour for vocational schools and community colleges.

Eliminate Public Service Loan Forgiveness for occupations other than primary and secondary school teaching.

Prohibit publicly funded education entities from having political or religious loyalty requirements for students, including in applications, along with prohibiting giving weight to political or religious considerations in applications and graduations.

Require schools to counsel students having below the median grades in calculus I classes, along with ACT or SAT math test scores below the 94th percentile, to consider not majoring in math or engineering or physical sciences.

Prohibit corporations from purchasing, leasing or controlling housing on public post-secondary school properties.

Require public vocational and post-secondary schools to publish accurate data on employment prospects, median incomes, and employment rates of graduates in their fields of study.

Require all public and private post-secondary alternative medicine schooling entities to fire all employees and contractors, then shut down. Ban government funding for indigenous knowledge education.

Require post-secondary schools to website list their on campus arrests, the types of crimes alleged, and whether hazing occurred.

Require publicly funded in person post-secondary schools to fire all business, education, humanities, and social science employees and subcontractors, closing those schools and departments. Train primary and secondary education teachers through no cost student teaching, substitute teaching, and an online teaching methods boot camp.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from giving honorary degrees.

Prohibit government entities from requiring post-secondary education credentials for daycare employees, except first aid and relevant child care courses for daycare employees not receiving such training in secondary schools.

Repeal the Disabilities Education Act.

Prohibit states from mandating preschool through grade 12 educational curricula.

Prohibit student, government, and post-secondary entities from paying for post-secondary accreditation agencies, except in science, medical, engineering, and vocational fields.

Prohibit individual publicly funded elementary and secondary schools from paying their highest paid full-time teachers more than eight percent more than their lowest paid full-time teachers, excluding pay for extracurricular, summer school, driver education, and after school activities

Require new college and vocational students to serve at least an 80-hour internship in the field they plan to study before they start required classes within that major.

Prohibit individual publicly funded school districts from paying administrators greater than 45 percent more than the median salaries of their full time teachers.

Create rights for dissenting students and or parents to receive education vouchers for private schools or homeschooling when teachers, politicians, and or administrators at their nearest public K through 12 schools have political rules, rewards, punishments or litmus tests for students.

Require K-16 schools to pay for medical treatments resulting from student injuries acquired during school sponsored sports activities.

Require public school districts to reduce their percentages of administrators, adjusted for changes in student populations, to levels they had in 1990 or below.

Grant majority parental and guardian vote the right to break off their childrens' schools from existing school districts.

Ban state governments from making non-financial education laws, except when those laws have been approved by majorities of statewide voters.

Prohibit existing publicly funded post-secondary schools from constructing new buildings and stadiums, except to replace uninhabitable buildings and stadiums when the long-term costs of repairing uninhabitable buildings are greater than the long-term costs of new buildings. Ban additions to existing publicly funded post-secondary school buildings, except when new scientific and technical equipment require additions.

Prohibit public schooling entities from replacing habitable schools for fallacious rhetoric about improving academic achievement.

Ban government entities from race, ethnicity, and religion norming grades, the same for licensing, certifications, and civil service testing. Prohibit accrediting entities from accrediting schools using these practices.

Prohibit publicly funded schools from having lower admissions standards for donors, athletes, legacy individuals, and school employees, including their first degree relatives. Define public funding to include government funded student grants, loans, and scholarships.

Ban publicly funded secondary schools from teaching non-vocational technology courses.

Ban post-secondary schools from requiring humanities, social science, and natural science courses for students not majoring in the humanities, social sciences or natural sciences, except courses in informal logic and consequentialist ethics.

Require public universities to stop offering degrees in fields having fewer than a mean of 13 students in those fields' 300 and 400 level classes, except when receiving waivers for well-reasoned trade or national security reasons.

Ban employers from charging employees and 1099 recipients for training.

Require every college student, who has not passed informal logic and consequentialist ethics courses in high school, to pass school or self-study courses of same before college graduation.

Ban publicly funded education entities from giving weight to student interviews for admissions.

Create a moratorium on viral genetics classes.

Implement a $16,220 per student, per class negative externalities tax on post-primary law, business, dietitian, phlebotomy, nutritionist, humanities, acupuncture, landscaping, cosmetology, social science, fashion design, insurance field, medical management, medical administration, alternative medicine, and so-called artificial intelligence classes at publicly funded schools, except music, logic, grammar, accounting, English style, anti-dysgenics, long-term consequentialist ethics, and risk neutral finance classes. Ban financial aid to students taking those subjects. Ban classes on how to influence political decision making with artificial intelligence at publicly funded schools.

Ban post-secondary schools from awarding degrees in general studies, multidisciplinary studies, and similar fields.

Require physical education teachers to pass an injury prevention course or written injury prevention test, focused on the prevention of soft tissue and hard tissue injuries during weightlifting and interval training.

Prohibit any post-secondary teacher from knowingly and consensually engaging in sexual activity with any student, who attended any school the teacher taught at in the past 180 days, except with a spouse.

Ban from school property any older than their 12th birthday individual communicating a threat to school workers or volunteers.

Ban from school property any older than their 12th birthday individual assaulting another individual on school property or in school vehicles.

Repeal the FUTURE Act.

Prohibit post-secondary schools from using student and taxpayer funds to pay athletic department lawsuit costs.

Ban college student-athletes from receiving public funds at any post-secondary school where any athletic department employees receive salaries higher than the median salary of local full time, full year workers.

Fund studies to compare the benefits and harms of many types of apprenticeship programs.

Ban school districts from merging, except to increase available AP and vocational classes.

Ban three-cueing reading programs at public schools.

Ban states and local governments from requiring ethnic, racial, and or religious history education at publicly funded schools.

Defund Upward Bound, Even Start Family Literacy Program, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Ban publicly funded sex education classes from teaching topics other than health, chastity, anatomy, physiology, 

birth control, assault avoidance, assault reporting, dysgenics prevention, and the benefits of marriage.

Eliminate government funded programs to increase high-speed internet access. (High-speed internet increases hedonism and other harmful activities.)

Create a 185 percent of tuition costs federal student loan program for US citizen engineering, vocational, computer science, and medical field students at schools having semester hour costs below the national mean, charging loan recipients annual interest equal to that earned by index funds per year.

Prohibit publicly funded secondary and post-secondary schools from giving more than five percent A grades, ten percent A- grades, 15 percent B+ grades, 15 percent B grades, and 15 percent B- minus grades.

JT Fournier, last updated March 21, 2024