Public Education as Workforce Training. Is WorkKeys in Your State?

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Caste System, Common Core, Communism, Data mining, Education, Michigan, No child left behind, Race to the top, Road to Sefdom, Servitude

Missouri Education Watchdog via Grumpy Opinions

The above graphic comes from Holland (Michigan) School District and was provided by Karen Braun. She writes at spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com and she believes the P-20 pathway is the path to servitude. I hope a Holland, Michigan student tests well by 8th grade as he/she will be labeled as positioned for post-secondary and career success or not. Imagine that. By the age 14, your chance of success to either post-secondary education or career path can be predicted. She provides a quote about what happens when the ultimate goal of education is career planning:

As long as students are told that the end of education is a job or a career, they will forever be servants of some master….We are not programming machines. We are teaching children. We are not producing functionaries, factory-like. We are to be forming the minds and hearts of men and women… to be human beings, honoring what is good and right and cherishing what is beautiful. Hillsdale Professor Daniel Coupland echoing the words of Professor Anthony Esolen.

Missouri is one of seven states promoting the WorkKeys tests developed by ACT […]

Click here to view original web page at missourieducationwatchdog.com

The United States government in collusion with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are creating a generation of worker bees, i.e., a caste system with the Alphas on top

LINKS:
http://grumpyelder.com/2014/06/public-education-as-workforce-training-is-workkeys-in-your-state/
http://missourieducationwatchdog.com/public-education-as-workforce-training-is-workkeys-in-your-state/
http://spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com/

1 thought on “Public Education as Workforce Training. Is WorkKeys in Your State?”

bobmontgomery said:

June 23, 2014 at 6:51 pm

These questions need to be asked of not only your Socialist/Statist legislators but also those claiming to be conservative, who continually get sucked into the notion that it is a function of government to use education to create slav-, er, workers. The ‘workers of the world’ do indeed need to unite, but not in support of a socialist dictatorship, but of a free enterprise, freedom of choice, freemarket system like we enjoyed for 175 years where their vocation is their choice as much as how businesses conduct their business is their choice.
Teaching the 3 R’s served the nation, and the States, and the localities well. We haven’t been doing so hot in the last generation.

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