Author: jdcharlton

A Letter to Superintendents and Principals of Public Schools to Consider Using A Curriculum Developed by Enlighten Education Co-operative – February 2025

Dear Principal,

As you may know, there is a growing interest among parents of the children entrusted to your care, that these students get at least a cursory exposure to the literature that for centuries has been the source of purpose and values in life.

Our organization, Enlighten Education Co-op, has created a tool to help you fulfill this need. It consists of a survey in three parts of comparative religions and outlines of Old and New Testament literature. It meets court guidelines of having secular purpose and neither promotes nor denigrates any particular religion.

Our organization stands ready to provide your teachers with suggestions on how to implement this curriculum into elective courses for high school students. We have placed the curriculum into the public domain and is available to download from our website for your review.

Children today are often left without a moral compass with which to navigate the challenges of modern society. It is so important that we allow them a safe place to have relaxed discussions of the questions that have interested generations of people from all over the world.

The Old and New Testaments of the Bible as the world’s best-selling book and having a major influence on our culture should not be a mystery to our young people. Its stories and history have traditionally been discussed as a means of people developing their own world views that give guidance to their lives.

Our public schools can provide a safe place for our students to consider ideas without any pressure to accept any particular doctrine. I hope you will contact us so that together we can help to fill this important need. Thank you,

William Bronson. MA, MTS, DMin – 239 940 6080

President of EEC – www.EnlightenEducationCo-op.org

Dear Friend, 

About seven years ago, I started Enlighten Education Co-op, a Florida LLC. I saw a need to help youngsters who were trying to get an education in public schools. The current social and educational environment makes that difficult for all the reasons we all know too well.

One idea we came up with was to raise money to hire retired teachers on a part-time basis and offer them as teacher assistants to school districts. Today’s teachers need help, and most would value having another adult in their classrooms. However, I was unsuccessful in raising enough money to fund this initiative. Our organization, EEC, is still willing and able to coordinate this initiative with school districts that request us to do that, but they would need to pay these retired teachers and others as they do now in many cases.

More recently, I created a curriculum that would re-introduce religious studies into the classrooms. It follows guidelines set by the courts regarding secular purpose, no undue entanglement of church and state, and neither promotes nor denigrates any particular religious world view.

For several generations, religion in general and the Bible in particular have not been studied in public schools in America. This has left a huge hole in children’s understanding of the traditional bases for finding meaning and values in life. Religion and the Bible have played a large role in the minds of western leaders, writers, musicians, artists, academics, and politicians. Without this knowledge, our students have been set adrift in a world distracted by materialism and entertainment without a moral compass.

The curriculum that I created to address this deficit can be found on our website at www.EnlightenEducationCo-op.org. along with a Sense of Congress Resolution that addresses these issues. I have put the curriculum into public domain so that any school district may incorporate it into their academics with or without changes at no cost.

Our organization, EEC, stands ready to assist and facilitate in any way any school districts that want to use this curriculum and/or our services in this regard. To do so, however, we must raise enough money to pay our staff. The amount of money we can raise will relate directly to the extent and speed at which this initiative will be accomplished. I assure you that it will be carefully and wisely spent. The by-laws of our organization are also available on our website and are designed to provide the transparency, efficiency, and scalability of this project.

Contributions are not tax deductible in that we have transitioned from our former status as a 501c3. Please consider donating to this cause because we will all benefit from having future citizens well informed in matters traditionally deemed necessary by our founders to the survival of our Republic.

Donations can be made on our website or sent to Enlighten Education Co-op, 2805 E. 5^th Street, Lehigh Acres, Florida, 33972. Feel free to call me on my cell for any further information at 239 940 6080. Please forward (BCC) this request to any of your friends. Thank you so much!  William Bronson

“do justice, love kindness, walk humbly…”