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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Un/homeschooling, Part 2
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:45:08 -0800

The more modern history of the public school system has more to do with socialism and consumerism than it does with education. One of the main architects of the modern system was Frederick W. Taylor and his "social efficiency" movement. He who provided the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany with their operating philosophy.

The driving forces behind pushing "social efficiency" were Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller.

John D. Rockefeller -- "In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, statesmen, politicians, creatures of whome we have ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in an perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way."

Edward Roth -- "plans are underway to replace family, community and church with propaganda, mass-media and education. People are only little plastic lumps of dough"

H.H. Cadard -- "standardized testing would cause the lower classes to confront their biological inferiority, sort of like wearing a dunce cap. In time that owuld discourage reproduction of the ants on the anthill"

So we jump ahead and we have Carter, of the good intentions and lack of any ability to foresee outcomes, who saddles us with the Department of Education and the goal of homogenizing education, with creating the idea of a national AND international single plan for educating all children.

Now, believe it or not, Bushy Sr. was a great believer in what Carter set up and put those lofty dreams into action. Which brings us to Bush Sr. and the final bricks in the wall, [go ahead, hum a few bars <g>] so to speak. In 1989, he signed the "Educate America Act" and convened the Governor's Conference on Education which he had led by then Governor Bill Clinton. The objective to revamp the education plans to systems governance. Bush then led the United Nations World Conference on Education for All with the goal of achieving worldwide consensus on education policy. From that came the National Education Goals panel which Bush had Clinton lead also. Clinton gets in the White House and continues *their* dream of goals and gets 8 of the National Education Goals signed into law as Goals 2000 in 1994 along with the School to Work Act. You might be more familiar with this under the name "Outcome Based Education" which might sound real familiar to anyone who has worked with No Child Left Behind which is the final morphed status of the original 1989 goals.

And, compliments of all these goals, we get the National Skills Standards Board which shall "identify broad occupatonal clusters and create a system of standards, assessment and certification for each cluster."

So, what have all those goals and testing gotten the American public? Internaionally, in 4th grade, U.S. students rank 12th and behind such progressive countries as Slovenia, Hungary and the Czech Republic! In 8th grade, 28th and behind countries such as Thailand, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Slovenia. And, the school system really excels when it comes to 12th grade. Why, the U.S. is ahead of absolutely no one except Cyprus and South Africa.

Do tell me exactly what a great job the U.S. public schools are doing and why you think they can do a better job than even the most illiterate of parents! High school graduates can't even make change without the cash register telling what to do! Honor Students have to take remedial English and math classes and can't get into any advanced science classes!

Stanford, Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League universities actively recruit homeschoolers because they know the kids know how to study and are goal oriented. The dropout rate in college for homeschooled students is almost zero! They go to college, not because they think they have to but because they *want* to!

Lynda



  • [Homestead] Un/homeschooling, Part 2, Lynda, 06/15/2008

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