Again, congratulations for your courage and well stated remarks.
Molly Freeman
Louise Yarnall wrote:
> I would appreciate some specific citations on "School to Work." I have
> researched plenty of people and companies interested in providing options
> to public schooling, and I have yet to find anyone who touts "efficiency,
> productivity and profit" as their primary motivation. I also have yet to
> find anyone who suggests that the primary goal of education should be to
> shut down the arts and humanities and replace it with technology and
> vocational training. Where are you finding these people? Provide some
> specifics.
>
> My view on the transformation occurring in education today is that there is
> widespread popular dissatisfaction with school as usual, and so there's
> much interest in looking at alternatives. This movement is occurring on
> many fronts, from individual to family to corporate to national. I don't
> see any one hand behind it, but I see a confluence of many forces. My
> question is: Why is this transformation drawing such heated rejection from
> education faculty, and why is their rejection mischaracterizing it so
> completely?
>
> Louise
>
> >>"efficiency, productivity, and profit for meeeee.
> >>No one will get education for freeeeeee".
> >>
> >Anyone interested in education needs to get prepared for the huge impact
> >the School to Work movement is going to have on this field.
> >
> >The federal government is putting billions into the hands of governors (the
> >sidestep state departments of education that way), to get them, along with
> >their corporate cronies, to change the way education takes place in this
> >country. They want to make sure that it is made clear that public schools
> >work for employers not parents or the students themselves. Anything that
> >is not useful vocationally is not to be taught.
> Louise Yarnall
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> UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Science
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