Bill Gates Teams Up With UNESCO
by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted Nov 28, 2005
“It’s hard to see any difference between the 2004 National Governors Association plan and the earlier plans floated when Clinton was president. The plan uses a lot of mumbo jumbo to change the United States from free enterprise to a planned economy, and to turn public school students into a compliant work force for multinational corporations.
The new buzzwords are “career pathways,” “education pipeline,” “redesigning high schools,” “smaller learning communities,” and “cluster-based economic development strategies.” Recycled buzzwords from prior years include “school-to-work,” “work force development system reform,” “business-education partnerships,” and “meaningful outcome measures.”
Six public hearings on the proposals were held in Idaho in October, and 500 people showed up at the Boise hearing. The reaction was overwhelmingly negative from both parents and teachers.
The Idaho Board of Education announced this month that after receiving “hundreds of comments,” it has made “modifications to Idaho’s plan to redesign high schools and middle schools,” but those changes are minimal. The original plan would have required all sixth-grade students to select their learning plan for a specific career pathway and choose “career focused electives” to enter the work force.
Under the revised plan, students will have to do this only by the eighth grade. But how many eighth-graders do you know who can (or should) map out their career pathway and narrow their education options to meet that single goal?
What about the colossal conceit of politicians and businessmen who think they can predict the jobs that eighth-graders can or will want to fill in their future years? Planned economies are always a failure. Students should be educated to reach their potential- whatever it is.”
Thanks Phyllis, for your clarity and consistency on exposing the socialists in our world. Bill Gates has formerly funded population control measures, and now with this move he is again exposing his conceit and need to control the economy and business as well as family life. Free Market Capitalism is the answer for our children’s future, not top down control of our schools by Corporations and the marxists at UNESCO.
Jenny Hatch