Welcome to Good Faith.
GFESS is a supplementary school start-up and development service to help you navigate State of Ohio's rule and regulations. Many more educational support services are also available here. They range from tutoring and college admissions guidance to employability assistance with applying, interviewing and successfully for a teaching position overseas. We were formerly consultants for chartering private schools until we observed they are too similar to the government schools they seek to emulate. Since 2001, our staff have successfully established a K-3 primary school in Cuyahoga Falls and a K-12 private school in Cleveland, both of which are currently operating in accordance with State of Ohio directives. Would you like to start your own supplementary school? We can do that. We can also charter a private school.
The Problem of Government Doing Schooling.
Forty years ago, in 1968, the Carnegie Quarterly noted some alarming deficiencies of government schooling: in America's fifteen largest cities 60% of low-income sophomores did not make it to graduation; every month a thousand kids dropped out of the government schools in Chicago alone; and 65% of minority students in New York City never graduated. These statistics echoed Jonathan Kozol's 1967 memoir of the destruction of the hearts and minds of students from serving a thirteen-year sentence in Boston's government indoctrination centers, popularly known as 'schools' - "Death at an Early Age", which was an understatement.
Fast forward forty years to 2008 and what improvements in government schooling do we find? According to SchoolandState.org, complaints concerning government schooling are on-going about poor academic performance, grade inflation, and low expectations. In addition, there are also serious concerns over such in-school issues as violence, physical and emotional bullying, cheating and lying, wide-spread immorality, drugs and alcohol, and worldview conflicts. A related example is the recent factional fighting in the City of Oberlin during the Spring of 2009 over the issue of flag worship in the government schools. The Alliance for the Separation of School and State posed a rhetorical question - "Of course, these problems are really symptoms of something deeper, but what is it?"
Although we can help you to start your own school, we can also show you how to do better than to copy the corporatized model of government schooling and its artificial age-based grouping of students. We can show how to organize a learning environment as opposed to a school. If you would like personal advice and counseling on meeting your educational needs, we continue to provide a consulting service based on your specific circumstances. For free information about this service, contact us at GFESS@GFESS.com with your query.
Employability Assistance in Seeking a Teaching Position Abroad.
Many teaching opportunites present themselves abroad. Schools in Arabian/Persian Gulf countries such as Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates often hire recruiters to help them find teachers willing to teach abroad. Housing and sometimes transportation are provided in addition to a substantial sum in wages.
Good Faith Education Support Service's consultant has a successful history of successfully applying, interviewing and receiving job offers from schools in Canada, U.A.E., United Kingdom, United States and Qatar. Whether you desire assistance with locating a personal recruiter or help with applying on an individual basis, GFESS can provide employability asssistance for a very nominal fee.