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Subject: Bush Uses Klinton Plan to Dumb Down Schools.
By Joseph A. D'Agostino, Page 5, Human Events, 13 August 1999.
"Here's True Class Warfare: Keeping Kids Ignorant. Texas Gov. George W.
Bush (R.) Has integrated his state's public schools into the federal
School-to-Work (STW) program that discriminates against some children at 11
years of age by putting them on an inferior educational track designed to
develop menial job skills rather than the critical thinking skills
associated with traditional education.
Conservatives have long fought such programs, inspired by the basic
assumption that good citizenship (whether for garage attendants or trial
lawyers) requires a solid grounding in the historical, philosophical and
literary traditions of Western Civilization.
STW, like Goals 2000, is a pillar of the federal government's plan to
impose federal control and federal standards [read Socialist] on local
schools throughout the country.
In return for accepting federal grants tied to STW, states must implement a
program regulated from Washington. [again read Communist here].
"Bush was responsible for transforming our system from a traditional and
vocational two-track system into a combined School-to-Work system" said
Chris Patterson. Patterson who runs Education Connection of Texas, presented
a study on the impact STW has had in Texas at a conference sponsored last
August [1998 I think] by the Heritage Foundation, the Family Foundation, and
the Virginia Education Coalition. "Eighty per cent of all students in Texas
are in vocational programs," she said.
Bush favors parental consent for students enrolled in STW, but has left
local school districts to implement that policy as they see fit.
Nationalized Education
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act, along with the two other pillars of
President Clinton's plan to further nationalize local schools (Goals 2000
and the National Skill Standards Act), was passed by a Democratic [read
Socialist] Congress in 1994.
"Over the past decade, Texas has enacted legislation that creates a
framework for STW that is described by the National Center for Education and
the Economy as the most extensive statutory infrastructure for STW in the
nation," says Patterson's report.
Texas had begun developing a federally funded vocational program in 1987,
and an STW-like system began taking shape before Bush took office, when
Democrat [read Socialist] Ann Richards was governor of Texas. "In 1991, the
Texas Education Society began recommending that schools replace Honors'
Courses with mixed-ability grouping and establish interdisciplinary and
thematic [a subject or topic of discourse] instruction, cooperative
learning, applied curricula," Patterson reported.
But a dramatic change came three years ago. "The peaceful co-existence of
vocational training and academic education in high schools of Texas ended
abruptly in 1996 when Gov. George Bush requested and received funding to
implement STW under the federal STW Opportunities Act....Signing a contract
for $61 million over five years, Texas joined the 43 states presently [they
all have now been gobbled up by the US Dept of Ed, with Florida being the
last one] implementing the federal STW initiative to create what the
National Governors' Association describes as a `unified educations system'
for the United States," says the report.
Under STW, administrators and counselors direct children of middle-school
age into the vocational program they feel is best matched to the children's
abilities, following guidelines set down by Washington. [the act then allows
the Fed Dept of Labor to determine where that child will work as an adult,
and at what pay rate, what geographical location, and that is where the
adult will now be directed to go if they want a job in the field that they
have now been directed by the Fed Dept of Edu to be educated for-sure as
hell smells like Communism to me!].
"The federal government will decide which careers to funnel students into,"
warned Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly. "(Vocational training is) is
not the job of the public schools," she said. "Its their job to teach
children to read, basic history, geography, and the like."
Large corporations have become involved in STW, often providing
supplemental funding to the public schools, and Schlafly believes these
corporations merely want to "train kids to do some job. They don't need to
know George Washington was our first President."
`Cradle to Grave' System
"With STW, we're straying away from liberal arts and college preparatory
education," said Patterson. She said that Texas has a low high school
graduation rate and "the lowest college graduation rate in the nation." Her
study also found that "School-to-Work has had a negative impact on students
obtaining high-wage, high-skilled jobs."
"By default, I've become the School-to-Work sounding board in Congress,"
Rep. Bob Schaffer (R.-Colo.), and STW opponent, told Human Events. "I think
most Republicans in Congress are still unaware of what STW really is.
[Remember the Communist Manifesto?]. I'd venture to say most people on the
Education Committee are unaware of the magnitude of the STW program and the
completeness of the plan." He Explained that STW is "difficult to track and
follow" because it spans several agencies, primarily the Education
Department and the Labor Department. It is brilliant in its deviance." He
pointed to a letter written to Hillary Clinton on Nov 11, 1992, by Marc
Tucker, President of the National Center on Education and the Economy [a
fully Socialist leaning organization]. The First Lady sat on the board of
the group, along with prominent liberals [and members of the Council on
Foreign Relations] such as Ira Magaziner and David Rockefeller Jr.
After expressing his joy at her husband's election, Tucker lays out a
method for the federal reshaping [again as the Communists have historically
done] of the American workforce through the educational system. "We think
the great opportunity you have is to remold the entire American system for
human resources development," he wrote. "What is essential is that we create
a seamless web or opportunities, to develop one's skills that literally
extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone."
Roadmap for Clinton Administration
Tucker proposed legislation to revamp American education from top to
bottom, describing his project this way: "The object is to create a single
comprehensive system for professional and technical education that meets the
requirements of everyone from high school students to skilled dislocated
workers....Creating such a system means sweeping aside countless programs,
building new ones, combining funding authorities, changing deeply imbedded
institutional structures, and so on."
Tucker name numerous associates-whom Schaffer called "some fo the Clintons'
closest friends"-who agreed with the broad outline of the plan. "It's a
roadmap for the Clinton Administration," said Schaffer.
Gov. Bush's office did not return calls seeking comments." [It has been
my experience that while running for President none of Bush's offices,
including their local offices in Florida would return any phone/fax/ or
email calls or messages. None of mine were ever answered.]
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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.