YOU JUST DO NOT GET IT, YET!  SUPPORT YOUR TEACHERS—Unless you work directly with the children, you will never understand what is hindering 40% of the students in the classrooms from reading. With our NON-PROFIT 501c3 program these STUDENTS will read & quickly. Stop pushing  literacy early onto kids who will not have those physical

BLOG Sept 2025 I want to talk about all the negativity in our world! D.Parker Pres. Future Visions Youth Development Inc.  a 501c3 Non -Profit Org. [email protected] No, I do not want to talk about it. I will not ignore it either. I take action–with all the power I have to change the world. I

BLOG Sept 2025    How many foolish people are there in the world?  …that answer by D. Parker Pres. FVYD Plenty… If anyone says to you evidenced-based and Education in the same sentence they are very foolish if they are looking for solutions to past education problems.  Let me remind all, for the past 8

Blog FVYD Sept  2025 How to make your life special! Kids & teens do not get stuck in your past! …especially if there is pain there. Take the beaty from it and hold that dear!  Do not get stuck in your present either—you can mold that to be great in your future….do it!  Here is

Every Tuesday I found a boy’s crumpled homework in my trash. One night, he told me farmers were worthless—like me. I’ve lived seventy-two years on this patch of dirt. My name’s Ray. Folks around here call me “the old farmer with the broken barn,” and that’s fair enough. My wife’s gone, my kids grown, and