Disclaimer: Due to the court ordered injunction against HTWF, we have been temporarily barred from showing Mr. Jackson's image or using his name on any of our websites, this can be changed after a jury hears our case. Because Mr. Jackson was the main ingredient of all of HTWF's initiatives, we had to replace his name and image throughout each page. Please take note of the replacements:
Michael Jackson replaced with Rumple Stiltskin
MJ was replaced with Rum Stilt
Mr. Jackson replaced with Mr. Stiltskin
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A City and School New Haven is a K-12 school that will be central to the activities in a small city that will be incorporated with the same name! The school will enroll abused, abandoned, and at-risk children and will demonstrate, that, with the right curriculum and care, even severely abused children can succeed. Other education programs have tried to do the same, but increases in displine and accountability alone, have not fully translated into academic success for those truly from the most at-risk demographics. TGOL and adopting the behaviors that flow from it will be key to New Haven students' successes.
New Haven will become a sanctuary and safe haven for graduates. Many will return as adult voluneteers or staff to help a new generation of students. There will be a great sum of revenue generated by New Haven, but it will go back to support the aims of New Haven.
All revenue generated will be needed to maintain the excellence care students receive. Extensively screened teachers, mentors (married couples who are living in the affilated city for a specified period of time) and volunteers will regular interact with and be paired off with students, helping to center and mature their character. What is the school's purpose? Short term: To heal the emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual damage done to abused, abandoned and neglected children. HTWF will take children whose abuses often sentence them to a life filled with crime and drugs, and will reverse trends and demostrate that with the proper attention, guidance and the right educational philosphy, such kids can perform well above expectations.
Long term: When you take thousands of children that will grow up into a society in which they will contribute to many of it's problems, such as poverty, welfare, moral decay, crime, abuse, etc...simply by being a product of their environment and lack of education and love as a child, and, instead, put them into an environment of love, security, support, education, fantasy, fun and righteousness ...... you will have those children no longer contributing to the problems of the world, but to its solutions. As a result, eventually great progress can be made toward much loftier goals such as peace on Earth. What will each student learn or earn?
What programs or services are offered? Character Growth: It will be a regular part of the New Haven's curriculum to promote and teach character growth. Besides the various character courses, all the staff and activity within the city will center around progressing virtue and vilifying poor character. From actually teaching the various virtues and how to improve them, to having fun service projects and emphasizing character in all recreational and academic activities, character improvement will be emphasized, practiced and will become second nature to students, teachers and city mentors. Recreation: There will be an enclosed amphitheater, that seats tens of thousands of people, with facilities to house an olympic-sized pool, a recreation building, a baseball/football field, gymnasium, theater and music/dance concert hall and festival facility. Field trips all over the world will be a source of hands-on education and wholesome fun will be actively encouraged. Academics: One of New Haven's major goals is to excel students who, because of their backgrounds, are statisically given little hope of achieving academic success or settling into fulfilling careers. The best of the world's teachers will be called and trained for a lengthy time in the processes of how to teach with character improvement goals incorporated into their curriculum. Strict school guidelines that do not allow students to move to the next grade without attaining a mastery over materials from their current grade will be rigourously enforced. Struggling students will receive tons of help to remedy shortcomings. All the basic academic courses will be offered, along with an outstanding and wide-ranging curriculum. Courses as diverse as calligraphy, ettiquette, fencing and horticulture will be offered students.
Sex education: Classes will be taught to older students. Negative effects of premarital sex (venereal disease, ill-trained parents, unwanted pregnancies) will be explained emphatically, based on the idea that sexual integrity leads to lasting happiness. Also, every older graduate will receive parenting courses on how to skillfully raise emotionally mature children. World religion classes: Students will be taught the basics of all religions and will take field trips to foreign countries to broaden their understanding of those religions, to see HTWF's humanitarian efforts abroad, and to explore the richness and diversity of other cultures. No particular religion will be imposed on students or taught as a default. |
Humanities: Every form of music, dance and art classes will be offered and will be of no small renown. The theaters in the school and city will host plays and concerts. Many of these performances will be professionally choregraphed and filmed and ultimately posted to the web. Students will be required to learn a musical instrument and/or to learn a foreign language. Post High School Financing: New Haven will take on the role of a financier for children seeking to pursue traditional university pursuits (including two-year and online coursework), humanitarian pursuits (HTWF intiative appreticeships abroad and volunteer work with other charities or the Peace Corp., etc.), and religious pursuits (seminaries, monasteries, missionary service, etc.).
Environmental Affirmations: Positive affirmations in the form of art, quotes, etc. will be on the walls and in the courtyards of the school. These will elevate the lives and discourse students and staff and act as a reminder of the kinds of lives they should live. Who is our market? At-risk children. Those who are quietly labeled "beyond hope."
What teaching methods will be used there? New Haven will be strictly about learning and character development. Various methods that have a proven track record of success will be borrowed from various educational methodologies and practices. We are behavior and results driven, regularly assess teacher and student performance, and quickly make adjustments when confronted with substandard results. Teachers at New Haven will be paid very well and those that do not deliver results will be let go.
Why will our new "members" want to stay?
The following represent all the HTWF objectives that will be addressed with this ONE initiative:
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