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Helps You Create:
Self Motivated; Self Disciplined; Self responsible, Self-managed,
Self-Controlled, and Entrepreneurial CHILDREN
At School or In The Home!
SECOND, Base Everything Upon YOUR "Rules of Law," which the children understand and have helped you to make. To understand exactly how, read what follows!
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OwnaPvtSch reveals how easy and highly profitable it is for ANYONE to own and operate an elementary school for kids or a workshop (called a "funshop") for parents using self-management methods labeled the "Harrison System!"
PROBLEM CHILDREN SOLUTIONS describes an an authentic problem with kids; then relates a solution by a management expert (a counselor); and finally, reveals how the problem could have been prevented with do-it-yourself self-accountable methods.
PERFECT ATTITUDES & BEHAVIORS (for kids) ARE EASY & COSTLESS! The miracles of perfect children are yours for the clicking! Imagine, no more problems with kids, either as a teacher or a parent! Seem too good to be true? Well, when you have youngsters automatically coming to you for advice, because they don't want to make a costly (to them) mistake, you will no longer need to manage them. Thus, your stress and work will automatically disappear. Click on our web site at: http://members.aol.com/PerfectAttitudes/index.html and prove it for yourself. It's all free on our web sites for the do-it-yourself parent or teacher! But be sure to come back here for what's below.
PERFECT
(K-8) SCHOOLS ARE EASILY AVAILABLE & LESS
EXPENSIVE! With a few costless changes (in enlightened attitudes),
miracles are possible in both public and private K-8 elementary schools -
despite what the managers of education will tell you! America can spend one
third what it does now and achieve three times the academic and social progress
you see today! These are logical facts which can be proven to ANY person
believing in facts rather than mere words of some so called educational manager,
administrator, education professor, teachers' union executive, or school
expert. Click on our web site and prove it to yourself. It's at:
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OR: If you
need more help you can read, and
implement the simple
"do-it-yourself instructions"
contained in our two or three books.
Actually, we hope you'll not need our
books!
Nevertheless, the books are not expensive! And, they're fun to read! Two for teachers @ $32 total, two for parents @ $24 total, or three if you are both teacher & parent @ $42 total (There is an additional $5 S & H charge plus 8% tax for Californians). Books carry a 30 day return guarantee!
Want Your Taxes Reduced? The only sure way this can happen is by creating self-managed citizens. People who need lots of management cost BIG money. The reverse process must start early with young children becoming self accountable under the rule of law. Taxes can reduce only when there is little need for them! As long as we continue to teach our children with management methods - taxes MUST continue to rise! "The more you manage the more you must!"
Would You Like to Lower Educational Costs? There is only one way to do this - Teachers Must Become More Productive! This requires that each teacher better educate more children - not less, as we try to do today. But that's impossible - using management methods, you may say. And you're right! So, logically, self-managed pupils must be created using the "Harrison System." However, there is also a hidden problem in doing this. Today the educational establishment is top heavy with the necessary managers who control everything. So, it's logical to assume these managers will fight the loss of their jobs. What such managers may fail to realize is that much more income and prestige for them is to be had as a productive teacher who doesn't need a manager. Any manager trying to prevent such an improvement from happening should be "overrun" with angry System parents . But, knowing how parents react to school administrators, the idea seems unworkable. So, to overcome this obstacle: Teachers must be allowed to become "INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS" - if they so desire. And, any teacher who doesn't so desire might be gradually phased out by productive teachers using the System. Moreover, the contracting teacher must then be paid ONLY with a contractual sum for each pupil taught with "bonus" money for each monthly rise in average academic achievement for the WHOLE CLASS. Conversely, a penalty might be assessed for each monthly decrease (from the classroom's previous achievement average) discovered by testing at the beginning and ending of the school year. Such productive teachers could become wealthy using the "Harrison System" - as educational costs also drastically reduced. But what about "vouchers," or a "bonus" for teachers, or "Charter Schools"? Won't they work, you may say? The answer must be, "No!" Not when educators use management methods. All such "false" incentives merely increase the stress and pressure on everybody to be productive without supplying the means to make it happen - self accountable students.
Desire to Curtail Crime & Violence? Again, the solution lies with the creation of self accountable citizens. People who KNOW that they alone pay for mistakes usually don't make many - they seek advice from everyone they can.
Tired of BIG Government? The only way way to reduce BIG government is to create citizens who DON'T need it. Self accountability trained kids become self-governed adults.
How About Welfare Reform? Every Harrison System trained child KNOWS he must be SELF-RELIANT and accepts welfare ONLY when unfortunate circumstances beyond his control force him to rely on "hand-outs" from the "government" (the parent or classroom teacher).
Like to educate Both the Gifted and Slow Learners Beyond Belief? Using the Harrison System, top students earn the right to tutor the remaining 5/6th of the class and get paid for it in valuable "points." Thus, the "Student Teachers" learn how to be successful leaders while the remainder of the class receives all of the special help and attention desired. No pupil can or wants to become a "Gold Brick" in a System classroom. On the other hand, no one is pressured or forced to perform beyond what he or she desires - as they must be in management classrooms.
Seek Citizenship Harmony in Classrooms & Everywhere in the World? In a System classroom there is constant interaction and harmony between pupils. It makes no difference who or what the child is. Only ability is greatly valued! A White girl wanting to help a Black boy occurs constantly and is much appreciated, and vice versa. Any rudeness or derogatory remarks are cause for a "lawsuit" - which is never forgotten. The "Classroom Bully" receives the same treatment. As these children become adults, the carryover is complete.
Want to Promote Democracy? A classroom must use self accountability training and be democratic (not managed) before democracy can be promoted. It is completely illogical to think anyone can train youngsters for 13 years with management methods and then expect them to function properly in a truly democratic setting. Is it any wonder people: don't vote; don't care about the qualifications of a political candidate and his misbehavior, or won't eagerly accept jury duty; etc.?
Can You Imagine America as the Business Capital of the World? Today, America needs Entrepreneurs, BIG corporation executives, and workers who can and will think-for-themselves. It needs leaders (not just followers) who will look after their employer's interests (rather than just their own). The World needs inventors, innovators, and "movers & shakers!" How can this ever be accomplished with management methods at school or home? America must change it's citizens into self-managed people. This requires Americans who are no longer content to just plod along as "good little factory workers." Instead, let's lead the world into a truly industrialized and information age. We can do this without pain and almost effortlessly by switching to self -management methods at school and in the home.
Churchmen! Want to Permanently Build
"GOD'S Principles" Into People With the Best Teacher in the World -
Experience? Think about this logically: If GOD
had not wanted people to think for themselves wouldn't HE have created us
without a will of our own? No amount of preaching can permanently build
a conscience into people like experience can - especially at an early
age! And no method of training does it better or more permanently and
thoroughly than self accountability methods - which operate under God's Laws.
Management methods may do the opposite. Unless the proper person
is constantly in attendance for guidance, the individual may go astray.
Hopefully, churchmen will now want to use the System
in Sunday Schools; to use it in their private schools; and,
to use it in Bible Studies and any other way that comes to mind. It requires
no change other than in improved attitudes. You'll be amazed at the
results and GOD seems certain to be pleased!
What Are Some of Your Other Desires? Do you hate to see people who are not self accountable? Such persons are everywhere today. They think nothing of shoplifting, refusing to help anyone needing it, and standing idlely by while others break the law. For example: What should have been done about the current energy crisis in California? Instead of the government trying to solve the problem, enough self-reliance trained citizens (if we had them) would have demanded a true free-enterprise solution. More generators would have been created to supply the demand for more electricity in a way that would not have taken the rights of others by way of pollution. The solution to many problems is a painless and almost effortless change - management to self-management methods at school and in the home. And, S.A.C.S. stands ready to help you or anyone who asks.
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Perhaps you might be interested in a few news clippings from Harrison's past leading up to the formation of the Self Accountable Children's Society. If you feel "yesteryears'" kids were a little better behaved, you may be right. The "Holy Terrors" and rascals of today have been managed a lot longer. Also, in the past, kids were more conscientiously managed or else trained with some semblance of self-reliance at home and school. Today we seem to do neither!
NEWS CLIPPINGS FROM THE PAST
Teacher Instructs Sixth Graders Using 'Profit
Motive' (Wrong Way Approach is
Successful)
By Archie Shamblin - (Santa Ana Calif. Register)
Newspaper Staff Writer
There is a teacher in a small desert community a few miles east
of Orange County who is doing things all wrong.
- His sixth grade class is twice the size it should be with
55 students and the teacher is clamoring for more.
- He promotes competition among students contrary to prevailing
philosophy - it creates tension in a child.
- He teaches capitalism and the profit motive to tender young
children.
In fact, 44-year-old Allan Harrison, who teaches in Sunnymead
(near Riverside), goes against just about everything the tax-supported school
system hold sacred.
The only trouble is Harrison's system apparently is having startling
success.
He claims he can teach his students as much in half a school
year as others are requiring a full year to teach. Limited testing
appears to support the claim.
Harrison said his method does away with practically all disciplinary
problems, homework for students, clerical work for the teacher, and the continual
search for something to motivate students.
It also does away with the need for small classes, according
to Harrison, a factor he suggests could save school districts considerable
money.
The "Harrison System," gradually devised over a 10 year period
has a simple premise - capitalism.
He creates a small "free enterprise society within his classroom
and establishes rewards and penalties much as the student will find in the
outside adult world.
Students "earn" dollars or points for good behavior and academic
achievement. They lose points in negative behavior or poor
achievement.
The points are viewed as liquid assets within the classroom
that can be "spent'' for a variety of items such as field trips, free time,
right to move a desk, the right to decorate the bulletin board and other
"commodities."
A "bank" is established with a (classroom) president, and a
(classroom) secretary, where points are deposited or loaned.
Several enterprises also exist in the classroom which may be
purchased - at auction - by students. These include such concerns as the
"bathroom company" and the "pencil company."
The student who buys the bathroom company may charge 10 points
to allow another student to leave the classroom for a trip to the bathroom.
Students are reluctant to part with points, thereby eliminating most
of the usual classroom traffic back and forth to the bathroom.
The student owning the pencil company rents or sells pencils
to students who have forgotten to bring one to school that day.
One of the most important commodities a student can buy is a
"teaching contract." The holder of these contracts help the adult teacher
with slower students, thereby adding to their own learning process.
And having the better students help the slower students adds
the "personal attention" factor to a classroom that teachers strive to
obtain.
The teacher contracts are important aspects in allowing for
the larger class sizes.
Harrison said his system establishes one factor - motivation.
"When I first started teaching (11 years ago), it worried me
to see children watching a fly crawling on the wall and ignoring what I was
trying to teach.
"This led me to look for something to motivate them, and I began
slowly to build my point system."
He said there was opposition to his system in the beginning.
"I wrote a paper on it while attending a summer session at Humboldt
State in 1960 and my teacher there was shocked.
"She said it was terrible, capitalistic and would damage the
students."
But Harrison persisted, improving his system gradually as the
years went by.
Last year he succeeded in getting district officials to run
a small test on his students, examining them first in October and again in
January.
"The results showed that during those three months the average
student in his class advanced nine months in reading achievement, six months
in vocabulary, and 14 months in the all-important reading comprehension
category.
Officials in the Moreno Valley School District, questioned last
week, declined to confirm Harrison's statements on the test results.
Dr. Gordon Gardner, director of research for the district, said
he wasn't sure what the tests showed.
"The period was too short between tests for an accurate evaluation,"
he said.
District Supt. Dr. Gordon Harrison said comprehensive tests
were administered to all sixth grade students in the district at the beginning
of this year, and that tests will be given at the end of the school year.
"This should give us a better look at achievements of the students,"
he said.
The Superintendent said the teacher's point system had showed
some success and that he supported it.
Supt. Harrison allowed teacher Harrison to increase his class
size to 55 students this year to see if an adequate teaching job could be
done with the larger class.
Teacher Harrison sums up his system with the statement: "My
students can learn a years's work in half a year."
Now that he feels his system is perfected, Harrison is going
into the business of teaching it to other teachers.
It is in this endeavor that he is running into unaccustomed
failure.
About a dozen teachers in his district now use the system, but
his travels outside the district have so far proved fruitless.
He recently made contact with 76 school districts, asking that
representatives listen to his explanation of the system. No one
accepted.
This past week he came to Orange County again to announce that
an "introductory" meeting on his system is being sponsored Oct. 7 by the
Moreno Valley Educators Association, 3:30 p.m., at Alessandro Junior High
in Sunnymead.
Teachers using the system will be on hand to discuss it, along
with parents and students.
The president of the teachers' association in the district,
and the president of the school board are supporting the conference.
TEACHER PUTS 'CASH ON THE LINE
Bremerton, Wash. (AP) - Frank Harrison (Allan
Harrison's son) believes in teaching his third-graders the facts of life
at an early age.
The facts, of course, have to do with money.
In Room 6 of Central Kitsap's Tracyton Elementary School, everything
- from trips to the bathroom to problems on a test has a dollar value, and
pupils can measure achievement by their net worth.
"It's based on life," said Harrison. "Kids are paid academic
dollars for the work they do in school."
For example, he said, a correct answer on a homework problem
could be worth $2 in academic bucks. But an important math test might carry
a $50 price tag.
Each student was given $500 at the beginning of the school year.
From that point on, students were on their own.
Money not lost through fines for "law-breaking" - a $50 fine
for lying, fighting, or stealing, while gum-chewing can cost $10 - often
is spent at the weekly auction.
Each student gets to bring in items such as books and candy
to sell and each keeps one-fourth of the profit. The "government" -
Harrison - keeps the remainder and pays it out in wages and so on.
This society has corporations, formed by students, to meet their
own needs - like bathroom privileges. For every trip to the restroom
during class time, the bathroom czar gets $10.
The bathroom corporation was sold for $700 at the beginning
of the year. By the next auction, it was worth $8,000.
There is no physical money per se. Harrison keeps a running
tally of each student's worth. It may sound a bit time consuming, but
he has streamlined it so it takes about 10 minutes a day.
HARRISON allowed the educational
establishment to disability-pension him from teaching because he
accidentally broke his arm (this was the only way the educational
establishment could effectively stop him from instructing teachers in their
own homes about System methods). What makes it even more ridiculous
and embarrassing is that everyone knows teachers can teach with one
arm. However, now that many people (especially teachers &
parents) have computers, Harrison can once again come into homes
and let people see what can be had for a mere change in attitudes.
Hopefully, some of you, who have read this far, will now want to help
Harrison and "S.A.C.S." to do what should have have been done in past
years - create a self accountability training revolution for the World.
Teachers should have NO fear that the same could happen
to them - if they use the System. The wild enthusiasm a teacher receives
from pupils, parents, and the public will more than offset the indifference
of any school administrator and protect job security. After all, what
can any manager derogatorily say about the almost magical creation of
self-reliant students?
DR. FISCHER became disgusted, with the managers of education, and became (at last report) a preacher for a large church in Temecula, California. What a loss for education and what a gain for religion!
Please don't be angry, or even surprised,
that education's managers didn't welcome the System with open arms. The
Harrisons are not! Face facts! It's human nature to protect one's
"bread & butter" at all costs (Didn't Harrison shamefully accept retirement
rather than continue the fight). We all might have done the same in
similar circumstances.
Harrison recalls what Dr. Robert Petersen (Orange County
Superintendent of Education at the time and now retired) said after seeing
and experiencing System accomplishments (check our OwnaPvtSch web site -
cited above - for Dr. Petersen's letter of glowing endorsement).
Harrison asked: "Can I now count on your help with
school districts in Orange County? You implied that I could - if I
ever acquired over a hundred teachers using the System."
Dr. Petersen replied: "First of all, I never dreamed you
could get a hundred teachers to use the System. Second, now that you have
done so, I must admit what I wasn't willing to say before. If I was
to sponsor you, or even publicly support you, my influence with my district
superintendents and their staff would disappear. I would become ineffective
in my own profession. I'm sorry Al."
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