The Party of Commons advocates that schools should go back to the basics regarding the education of our students, including that schools should spend more time in teaching history, government, civics and environmental studies, pay more attention to physical education, or "gym" as it is casually called, and the arts, and that there should be less emphasis on lengthy homework assignments and standardized testing. The Party of Commons will work with parents, educators, teachers, and parent and teacher associations to formulate the best policy for our students.
The Party of Commons also proposes that mandated morality classes be implemented for all elementary school grades, and that elective courses be implemented for high school grades. The morality classes would not be religious in nature, but would instruct on universal, non-controversial concepts of morality that virtually everybody agrees with. School boards, generally, should rely on parents, teachers and educators to help design a program and a curriculum to start these new morality classes as soon as possible.
The Party of Commons also proposes high school elective courses on the scientific concept of intelligent design.
If you would like to run for the school board in Washington state with a "Commons" endorsement or as a member of "Commons," please, send an e-mail to the Party of Commons: partyofcommons@yahoo.com (write school board in the subject heading, please), as we support strong school boards with strong foundations.
[revised on 5/6/09]
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
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