Thanks for your feedback. Please contact our Charter School Office through: Lotus@confuciuscharters.org, regarding all detailed information on this project. Lotus King Weiss, Ph.D. The Whole Elephant Institute

Thank you for the feedback. Please continue to visit our site to find updated information on the application of both the Confucius Teachings Charter School and the Whole Elephant Charter School. We also welcome scholars of Chinese language and culture to come to join our school founding board. We are also looking for business management experts to be part of the team. EB5 investment is also encouraged. For details, please contact our Chinese Charter School Office via lotus@confuciuscharters.org; 631-552-0233

Thank you for the kind feedback. We have been offering free bilingual education programs to children in five boroughs of New York City, with focus on helping children of the new immigrants from the Fujian Province to gain English language skills rapidly while strenthening their knowledge of the Chinese language and culture. Please feel free to contact Dr. Lotus King Weiss if your chilren need immediate education assistance: lotus@confuciuscharters.org; 631-552-0233

Thanks for your interest in our upcoming Chinese Charter Schools. We are still following the process of Charter School Application here in New York State. Our application has been subjected to discrimination by the Charter School Office of the New York State Department of Education in 2012 and 2013. We will be taking legal actions this year to rectify this situation. Meanwhile, the SUNY Charter School Institute has been very supportive of our application and we shall start to apply for the Charter Status this spring. So the earliest starting date of the Confuicus Teachings Charter Schools and the Whole Elephant Charter Schools as the first sets of Chinese Charter Schools in America shall be in September 2015. Prior to this, we are building our education sites to offer community sponsored education programs in all three Chinese communites here in New York City: Flushing, Manhattan Chinatown and the 8th Ave area of Brooklyn. Please do feel free to contact our founding team and give your feedbacks or support through: lotus@confuciuscharters.org; 631-552-0233

Thanks for your kind inquiry regarding our upcoming Chinese Charter Schools. Charter School is a form of public school that is free to all children who attend these schools. Public School children also enjoy free breakfirst and lunch if their income is too low. In our Chinese Charter Schools, we will make sure that all children from all ethnic groups have the great opportunity to learn Chinese Language and Chinese culture, free of charge, and enjoy healthy free Chinese breakfirst and lunch. Chinese food is an important part of Chinese culture. Regarding funding issues for our Chinese Charter Schools, we need to encourage the Community to support us to supplement the limited Charter School funds specifically given for Charter School preparation by the federal grants. Donation will be tax-deductable. If you have further questions, please contact us at the Charter School Office at: lotus@confuciuscharters.org; 631-552-0233

恩，想到一块了。应该有个地方讨论育儿经验。大家有推荐的地方吗？

我也有许多的问题要了解，毕竟选择一个好学校，孩子会受用一生。

Thanks you for your kind support, valuable feedback and great suggestions. New York City has over 1 million children in public schools (k-12). Many Chinese people in Mainland China may think that their children will get better education here in America. However, the fact is that most of the Children from the Chinese immigrants can not learn anything here through the public schools. First, most public schools are not providing sufficient bilingual education; even if there is such a program, the only purpose is to help the children to learn English well. As a result, many talented Chinese children have to experience great pain to learn English due to not being able to follow the education programs in the public school classrooms. The eager Chinese parents usually give these children huge pressure to attend all sorts of afterschool programs, spending much resource that they do not have, but still unable to assure the bilingual skills of the children. The profound Chinese language and culture heritage from the five thousand years of Chinese history can not be delivered to the children as the nutrients of their mind, body and soul. These children start to experience depresion and anxiety due to sustained pressure and losing the cultural roots. For children born and raised in America, they also are deprived spiritual nutrients and moral disciplines in the public schools, which are now focusing upon science and technology as a way to replace spirituality. Darwin's Evolution Theories are being taught in the public schools as an established dogma or "Truth". Young children start to believe that they are not different from animals, thus living a life style devoid of human morality and gradually turning into animal-like. Our establishing Chinese Charter Schools is not only for helping the Chinese immigrants. We believe that if the foundamental philosophy of public education in America is based upon a deviated ideology, there is no hope for the success of public education. The general public shall not allow such a failed public education system to continue to consume public fund. The American people came from all over the world have the ability and responsibility to stand together to build a new successful public education system that can lead our children to the right direction in life, as human beings, instead of animals. Our Chinese Charter Schools provide such an opportunity to those who are truly passionate to make a difference in the American Public Education System. The Whole Elephant Institute delivers the essence of tradational Chinese Divine Culture to the main stream American general public, since we believe that the five thousand years of Chinese Divine Culture belongs to all people on the Earth, and shall be delivered to all people like the Mom's Milk, an essential nutrient for the modern people's mind, body and soul. Only by feeding an infant with Mom's milk, instead of formula, a child can obain strong immunity to the infection of bateria and virus. Only when the American public education system can thoroughly integrate the Chinese language and culture, children in America can then learn and grow into healthy Whole Human Beings manifesting their full potential as schoalrs, scientists, artists, leaders and great parents for future generations to come to build peace and prosperity on the Earth.

Thanks for your kind feedback. Regarding whether Falun Dafa can be taught in American public school system, the answer is Yes. Falun Dafa is neither a form of religion, nor a form of political movement. Falun Dafa exercises will be introduced to all students in our Chinese Charter School. All true information related in Falun Dafa and the persecution of Falun Dafa by the Chinese Communist Party will be thoroughly taught to our students,just like the Holocaust Facts are taught in history and social studies.

Thank you for your kind feedback and valuable suggestions. We shall soon establish such a platform for those who are interested in learning more about our upcoming schools and the details of Charter School Application here in America. Please follow our Blog and also feel free to contact us if you have any further suggestions, feedbacks and questions.

Thanks for the feedback. Huge efforts must be made for establishing the first set of Chinese Charter Schools in America and we welcome all forms of support. On the other hand, the American general public and the immigrants in the community from all over the world have been giving us the most encouraging moral support and are all eagerly awaiting the establishment of these schools. So please do keep in touch and continue to be part of the team to support this great project that are destained to make a major impact to the public education system in America.

"To empower the Chinese Immigrants Community, to recovery the Chinese traditional culture, is a mission history bestowed upon every oversea Chinese. Confucius Teachings shall fully exhibit the power (in education)" These words in your comments are excellent and we thank you for your encouragement. It is also a spiritual principle that every great accomplishment or advancement in the human world is made through the great sacrifices of those who are willing to put their own interests, or even their lives aside, in order to pave a path for the future human kind. The Falun Dafa practitioners in China are exactly such a group of most noble spirits who have been helping the mankind to take a great leap forward, by educating the people in the world what the Truth of Human Life is all about. Master Li Hongzhi, as the Teacher for the international community of Falun Dafa practitioners, demonstrates what a great teacher can do: Save the World from total self-destruction, by transforming the body-mind-soul of over 100 million people. Dr. Tongwen Wang, as a scientist in the sect of modern science, used to be extremely successful and had the potential to make a major contribution to the field of the study of human body formation. However, if she continued to be walking on the old path,what was awaiting her and the world people was totally self-destruction: imagine if she promoted human cloning successfully with her bright mind. Although she was seeking for truth to help relieve the suffering of mankind from cancer, she was mislead to a path that is foundamentally designed to manipulate life for the benefit of human selfish pursue disregarding the innate power and wisdom of the universe. The consequence would be deadly. Once she met Falun Dafa practitioners and learned Falun Dafa in the Spring of 2000, she saw a totally different path of Science and she decided to follow the true science which leads mankind to a better place, instead of self-destruction. Her Teacher, like all genuine Falun Dafa practitioners, is Master Li Hongzhi. Regarding the ongoing "troubles" in establishing the Chinese Charter Schools, we believe that all challenges are good for the future success of our schools. The Plum Blossoms are most beautiful after a harsh winter; Lotus Blossoms are most beautiful when cultivated in the most filthy mud.

Thank you for the inquiry. The Confucius Institute established in American Universities/Colleges in fact has an employment policy to openly state that Falun Dafa practitioners are not allowed to work in the Confucius Institute. The Department of Education in New York State apparently approved such a discrimination policy since there are many Confucius Institute in New York State. If this is the case, when Falun Dafa practitioners start to establish public charter schools in New York State, it is espected that major road blockers will start to get onto the main stage. The past September was a landmark for us to build free community education platform to introduce our education programs into the local community and establish large community network support. We have been doing very well. The Confucius Teachings Charter Schools are different from the Whole Elephant Charter Schools. Details can be found on the home page: www.confuciuscharters.org