School to Work and Goals 2000
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Subject: School To Work & Goals.
Its time to consider home school if your not doing it, they keep trying
knew ways to exploit our children.
...Maple River Education Coalition (MrEdCo),
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The House Steering Committee has postponed until late next week action on
appointing the House Education Chair and on whether or not to split the
Education and Workforce Committee into two committees. See our alert of
December 12 (http://mredcopac.org/update57.htm)
for names of Congress
members who may be called regarding this very important issue.
What's At Stake In Education Committee Chairmanship?
Dec. 27, 2000 by: Phyllis Schlafly
As members of Congress are jockeying for chairmanships in the 107th
Congress, the committees that handle big money seem to get all the
headlines, but the Education chairmanship may ultimately have the most
influence on policy. Public opinion surveys indicate that education is
America's biggest issue, and the new chairman will decide quo vadis -- at
our current crossroads, which way will Congress go?
School choice may be the most visible education controversy, but it's not
the one that the chairman will be able to resolve because that is primarily
a state and local issue. The chairman will have a big impact, however, on
whether we continue to implement Bill Clinton's two controversial 1994 laws,
Goals 2000 and School-to-Work, or instead call a halt to the [ Socialist
CLMsr ] mission and curriculum changes those laws initiated.
"School-to-Work" (STW) is bureaucratic jargon for imposing a new paradigm
on public schools that de-emphasizes traditional academic studies and
replaces them with vocational-technical (Vo-Tech) courses for all students.
There's nothing wrong with vocational education; that's always been an
option for high school students.
But School-to-Work is not an option; it's a federal law, quintessentially
Clintonian. States that accept STW funds, and all states have accepted them,
are subject to STW regulations.
School-to-Work is the mainspring of the Clinton Administration's audacious
plan to impose German/Japanese style national economic planning to parallel
the 1994 Clinton health care plan to take over the entire health industry,
one-seventh of our economy. Indeed, the same schemers were the principal
architects of both plans: Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner.
The writings of Clinton's economic adviser, Robert Reich, show that he is a
frank admirer of the German model, which exercises government control over
the economy by controlling access to the workforce through the schools.
School-to-Work was easily sold to big corporations which envy the privileged
corporate-government relationship their peers enjoy in Germany and Japan.
The STW paradigm is marketed to public schools all over the country by Marc
Tucker's National Center for Education and the Economy, whose letterhead
boasts the names of Hillary Clinton, Ira Magaziner and David Rockefeller Jr.
The STW paradigm is packaged for Governors by offering them federal funds, a
route to bypass state legislatures and school boards, and attractive
"partnerships" with corporations.
One marketing outreach aimed at Governors is a 501(c)(3) organization
called CDS International (initials not explained on its letterhead). CDS
brags that it has organized STW programs for representatives of public
schools, government, industry and labor in more than 20 states.
CDS's brochure explains that STW's goal is to move American children into
"The German Dual System of Vocational Training" under which Germany
transfers nearly 70 percent of its students at age 16 from full-time
secondary school to spending most of their time as apprentices in the
workplace. National training standards have been established for each
occupation in Germany, and company training is governed by federal law.
The German system requires the student to spend 3-4 days a week in the
workforce under an employer's mentor-ship, and only 1-2 days a week in
traditional education learning mathematics, science, social studies and
languages. CDS states, "The dual system regulations and examinations are
products of close cooperation among schools, government, employers
(operating through their associations), and workers (represented by their
unions)."
The STW paradigm involves establishing the mind set that the mission of the
schools is to serve the workforce and the global economy, rather than to
give all American children the basic knowledge and skills that can enable
them to be all they can be. This is why the 1994 STW law dictates that the
Secretaries of Education and Labor "shall jointly provide for, and shall
exercise final authority over the administration of this Act," and why the
House committee that wrote this law is called the Education and the
Workforce Committee.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), one Congressman now running for chairman of the
House Education and the Workforce Committee, has made it clear which side of
the STW controversy he is on. In a December 7 letter circulating on Capitol
Hill, he comes out strongly against proposals to separate education and the
workforce into two committees.
Boehner's letter states in bold italics that "it is simply impossible to
consider workforce and education issues separately. . . . The two are
becoming even more indistinguishable as lifelong learning becomes absolutely
necessary in the New Economy."
The new school-corporate partnership is tantalizing to Big Government
Republicans who spend taxpayers' money and solicit corporate political
donations. Boehner's letter reminds us that "a structure that allows
education and workforce issues together also allows us to add employers to
our coalition efforts."
To have any chance of seizing the initiative on the education issue, the
Republican Congress will have to elect a House Education committee chairman
who understands and opposes Clinton-style School-to- Work.
Subject: Ky. Judge Orders Home-Schooled Teen to Public School. Date:
Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:19 PM
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0014714.html
Ky. Judge Orders Home-Schooled Teen to Public School, Or Else By Mark
Cowan, correspondent.
The mother of a 13-year-old Kentucky girl is under threat of jail if the
child has even one un-excused absence from school. The case pits a judge
against a mother's desire to home-school.
Attorney David Gordon sums up the situation in Logan County, Ky., where a
juvenile court judge is forcing a home-schooled teen-ager into public
school.
"We are facing bias against home education that we have not seen in a while
from the bench," Gordon said. The child is charged with truancy despite the
fact that the school district was informed that she was being educated at
home.
"There is no allegation by the school district or the State's Attorney that
there is anything deficient in the notice paperwork that she filed," Gordon
said.
He said no one at the school district has complained about the home
education. He said the judge's hostility toward home-schoolers was evident
during a preliminary hearing.
"At the arraignment, I offered to put on evidence of the home instruction
program," Gordon said. "The judge refused to hear it and simply ordered the
child to enroll in public school the next day."
In addition, the judge ordered the mother arrested and the child taken into
state custody if even one day of school was missed without a doctor's
excuse. Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense
Association can't recall such severe judicial bias.
"I'm very surprised that the judge has taken the action she has prior to
the time when we actually have a trial on the merits," Smith said.
A February 9 hearing date is set on the truancy charge.
"Formal education carried on subversively, can be in the forefront of
building a new moral order... it provides some measure of the physical and
social isolation necessary for the incubation process." (Roberta T. Ash;
"Durkheim's Moral Education Reconsidered: Toward the Creation of a
Counterculture". In SCHOOL REVIEW, November, 1971, p. 132)
How Big Brother Plans Your Career
Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
WASHINGTON - The School to Work program, which is written into U.S. law,
aims to decide for your children what line of work they should be trained
and educated for, according to the needs of the state, collaborating with
big business. It has all the appearances of a back-door approach to the
police state.
William L. Shirer, in his book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," cites
this phenomenon in Nazi Germany:
"[The workbook was introduced] and eventually no worker could be hired
unless he possessed one. In it was kept a record of his skills and
employment. The workbook not only provided the State and the employer with
up-to-date data on every single employee in the nation, but was used to tie
a worker to the bench. If he desired to leave for other employment, his
employer could retain his workbook, which meant that he could not be legally
employed elsewhere."
Robert Holland, author of "Not With My Child, You Don't," says the
similarities of the Hitler's "full employment" system and the School to Work
Law "snapping into place" right here in the United States are "quite eerie
and disturbing."
The system won't develop overnight, of course. For such a program to be
imposed on a freedom-loving public, there must be stealth and gradualism.
But the machinery for it has been written into law.
As Holland points out in a study prepared for Free Republic, School to Work
legislation repeatedly makes it clear its provisions are for "all students"
and "all schools."
Many of us grew up with dreams and aspirations as to what career path we
wished to follow. We may even have changed our minds or careers along the
way. We followed our ambitions, often taking hard knocks and learning life's
lessons along the way.
School to Work (STW) will have none of that. Some power elites will
determine your children's careers, and see that they are trained to follow a
predetermined paths. School to Work is not about educating boys and girls so
they can make their own career decisions. It is about training your children
to fit into whatever narrow scheme the elites have decided.
The Usual Suspects
This plan can be traced to "the usual suspects," i.e., wealthy, powerful
establishment foundations and left-wing politicians with a statist complex.
State-directed skills training would fit the "national good," as determined
by the elites.
In the mid-1980s, there was a raging debate as to whether the U.S. should
embark on a "national industrial policy" program. The Reagan administration
had rejected the idea, much to the chagrin of left-wing politicians who felt
that because many of our trading partners were making such top-down
decisions for their people, obviously we couldn't compete in a global
economy unless we did likewise.
So planners did what planners always do. If the bumpkins elected by the
people don't follow the wisdom of their betters, well, the planners will
simply have to work around them.
A Carnegie Corp. forum on education and the economy resulted in a Carnegie
spinoff, National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE). This entity
was led by educrat Marc Tucker, who designed the grandiose Human Resource
Development Plan. In 1990, NCEE unveiled the first national report boosting
the "necessity" of School to Work.
Hillary, of Course
In the forefront of those boosting the plan were Arkansas lawyer Hillary
Clinton and industrial consultant Ira Magaziner. This duo would later push
for a national health system that went down in flames when exposed to the
light of day. Those pesky voters again!
This was followed by a series of reports from the U.S. Department of Labor
in the first Bush administration. One can speculate that if Ronald Reagan
had been around for another term, he would have given this meddling short
shrift.
Electronic Resume - for Kindergartners
These reports declared that, quoting Holland, "all schools must bend
single-mindedly to the task of socializing a skilled workforce." The plan
"even offered a model electronic resume to be kept for all students, K
through 12, wherein their 'workforce competencies' would be rated and
recorded for the benefit of their future employers. It had a line
identifying each child according to Social Security number."
When the Clintons came to Washington and took the reins of power, the agenda
was front and center. What followed were the 1994 School-to-Work
Opportunities Act and the re-authorized Elementary and Secondary Education
Act.
From all of this emerged a National Skill Standards Board, which has divided
the economy into 15 sectors. The machinery for the state determining your
child's future was in place.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/13/160451.shtml
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"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans." Comrade Pres W. J. Klinton. USAToday. 11 Mar 93. Pg 2A. "You
know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to
have their fair say." Comrade Pres W. J. Klinton. 28 May 93. The Courtyard.
City Hall, Philadelphia. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing
through our papers. We are the President." Comrade Hillary Diane Klinton.