Welcome to Good Faith.
Many educational support services are available here. They range from tutoring and supplementary schooling to research and publication of a range of books in support of learning. We were formerly consultants for chartering private schools until we observed they are very 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 school? We can do that.
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, 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.
Welcome to Oberlin.
Oberlin offers the benefits of a vibrant cosmopolitan city with the delights of a small town. Oberlin is a very small "city" with a population of about 9,000 people. However, Oberlin College contributes an added 3,000 students who have helped to make Oberlin an attractive and exciting place to live and learn.
Oberlin has a long history of providing leading examples of social justice, from being the first in America to enroll an African-American female as a college student to being the first Ohio municipality to pass a resolution (unanimously) asking the House of Representatives to impeach Bush and Cheney for their war crimes. Good Faith is humbled by Oberlin's history of speaking out and acting on issues that concern every individual in today's global community.
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?"
The late economist and social philospher Murray Rothbard put it well - "Government is the problem, not the solution". America's Founding Fathers bequeathed to us separation of Religion and State at a time when schooling was the remit of religious organizations, not the State. Many of the Founding Fathers understood that you should be able to live, work, play, love, and dream in your own unique way. Being free and independent in life requires freedom and independence in religion and schooling. Today the State has taken schooling out of the hands of Religion in violation of the First Amendment with tragic results. We at Good Faith Education Support Service seek to address that.