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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
The US is developing a caste system. Government schools will be training "workers" while the elite will get to go to private schools where they can get a real education in the arts, literature and science. I'm sure I'll get a few "the sky is falling" responses, but do you realize how horrific this is? We are already developing a "ruling class". Hillary Clinton will likely run for President in 2016, Michelle Obama is being considered for a Senate seat in Illinois, George P. Bush is being groomed for office, as is Chelsea Clinton. We're going to be seeing Bushes, Clintons and Obamas for decades.
We will have a permanent ruling class, and a permanent working class, if the government has their way. And who is part of the cabal behind this? Bill Gates. May God strike me down if I ever buy another Windows product.
Here's the article:
American literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014.
A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace.
Books such as JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by "informational texts" approved by the Common Core State Standards.
Suggested non-fiction texts include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Invasive Plant Inventory, by California's Invasive Plant Council.
The new educational standards have the backing of the influential National Governors' Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, and are being part-funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Jamie Highfill, a teacher at Woodland Junior High School in Arkansas, told the Times that the directive was bad for a well-rounded education. "I'm afraid we are taking out all imaginative reading and creativity in our English classes. "In the end, education has to be about more than simply ensuring that kids can get a job. Isn't it supposed to be about making well-rounded citizens?"
Supporters of the directive argue that it will help pupils to develop the ability to write concisely and factually, which will be more useful in the workplace than a knowledge of Shakespeare.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...urriculum.html |
You've conflated two different things here.
I agree whole-heartedly that we have GOT to stop electing people from the same family. I've written about it in other threads, including a thread were someone gloated about George Prescott Bush starting a political campaign.
It is a lazy citizenry that picks people out of the same family. It is a recipe for disaster. We aren't supposed to have royal families in this country.
I made the mistake of supporting Dubya after GHW Bush had been president. Never again. No more Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, Cuomos, Browns, Romneys or Kennedys. Especially Kennedys. The grandkids are starting to get into the act. And there are so MANY of them.
The second idea I don't necessarily agree with. We have a broken education system in this country. I think we need to emphasize basic writing skills, math skills and scientific knowledge all the way into high school.
But we are kidding ourselves if we think everyone is suited for - or needs to go to - college. We aren't just dumbing down the high school curriculum, we are down college as well in order to maintain the pretense that everyone needs to go to college.
And we are going broke doing it. We are paying for a bunch of educations that don't produce particularly well educated people and leave behind a huge pool of high school graduates and dropouts that are unskilled.
We SHOULD emphasize technical training for about two thirds of all high school students. We should cut back on the number of colleges and college students and make the college work more demanding.
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