For 40 years, we've watched our education system fail our children. Literacy rates plummet. Practical skills vanish. A generation that can't fix, can't grow, can't build.
Children learn by doing. Every concept is experienced before it's explained.
Every graduate can garden, cook, fix, budget, and think critically.
No sanitized textbooks. No single narrative. Multiple perspectives always.
The National Commission on Excellence in Education declared: "The educational foundations of our society are being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people." They warned that if another country had done this to us, we'd view it as an act of war. We did nothing.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, 1983
Schools began teaching to the test. Art, music, shop class, home economics - eliminated. Children became data points. Creativity died. By 2007, 62% of school districts had cut time from other subjects to focus on reading and math.
Source: Center on Education Policy, 2008
Despite promises of change, the damage was done. A generation had grown up without ever using a tool, planting a seed, or fixing anything. We created excellent test-takers and helpless humans.
54% of U.S. adults read below 6th grade level. 66% can't perform basic car maintenance. 89% of young adults wish they'd learned practical skills in school. We have failed an entire generation.
Not reforming. Not patching. Building something entirely new.
Math through carpentry. Science through cooking. History through stories, not textbooks.
No sanitized American textbooks. Every story has multiple sides. We teach them all.
By graduation: garden, cook, fix a car, file taxes, handle emergencies, build furniture.
Sensory exploration, attachment, first words through play
Gardening, simple tools, cooking, projects
Woodshop, mechanics, advanced projects
Auto, taxes, gun safety, certifications