Milpitas Circle of Education

By Gunawan Alisantosa

My ideas to promote better education for our children

We will pay special attention to under performing students to close the achievement gap, at the same time improve all students' achievement.

High School grade honor studens earning community service credits by helping to tutor and provide extra help for students in the K-5 grades that are not performing up to grade level or are falling behind. Also recruiting retirees and other volunteers to help us tutor students and close the achievement gaps in our system. Volunteer parents, trained in workshops, helping other parents and coaching them in the best practices to provide a home environment for students that is conductive to learning and studying. Volunteer parents helping others' children when their parents have multiple jobs to make ends meet, high school honor students helping other students after school hours, parents helping teacher to better use the technology in the classroom.

After school activities, which enhance learning, and fun, such as art, music, sport, would enhance the children development.

None of these ideas should cost the school district large amount of money, all run and done by volunteers.

The return of investment will be tremendous. We will have more well behaved and educated children than trouble makers.

All of these combined will create a more pleasant working environment for teachers, which will attract and retain good teachers.

We can do a better job educating our children. We should not be happy just because our students achievement is the same as any other schools with the same socio economic background, while there are other districts whose students can achieve better or much better. When our children apply for college/university or enter the work force, no one from the admission office or human resource will bother to call our children to check which socio economic background they come from. They will be judged mainly by what they have learned and achieved. Our children are equally capable compared to those who are above average from other districts. It is up to us to help them achieve better.

Our children are our country's future !. We live in a very competitive world. We must give them our best to give them a brighter future !.