UNA-USA High School Model U.N. Conference

By the way, check out their website www.fte.org.There are more teacher and student materials on the site. If you change your mind after looking at them, I'd sure like to know.

US Policy embraces State-Planned economy

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US Policy embraces State-Planned economy

Federal law forms a new governance structure that opposes both free enterprise and representative government. Instead, government centrally plans and manages the economy.

The scaffolding for a centrally-planned economy was passed piecemeal under President Clinton and is currently being reassembled at the state level by combining the following federal laws into a three-way "public/private partnership:"

Goals 2000 (G2000) created the partnership between government and education by mandating dumbed-down national education standards, a national curriculum, national test, and national teacher licensure. Local and state control of education is ended.

School-to-Work (STW) creates the education/business partnership, changing the purpose of education from acquiring knowledge, to supplying workers for business. Schools become job-training centers offering narrowly defined career choices, approved by government economic forecasters, which match students and adults with government-preferred industries.

Workforce Investment Act (WIA) finishes the partnership triangle by creating a nationwide network of workforce boards, made up of "government-appointed representatives" from business, education, and government, who work to implement and manage the system through local "one-stop" centers.

Together, these laws align and consolidate all local, state, and federal policies, programs, and funding into a single state-managed economic system.

How the System Works:

Fed. Dept. of Labor chooses which private industry sectors are promoted in each state.

K-12 & state colleges dump academics for job training in local "targeted" industries.
National curriculum embraces a socialist, globalist worldview; loyalty to government.
"Teaching" redefined through new training and national licensure rules.
Students choose career cluster at end of 8^th grade, limiting curriculum to narrow choice.
Class time is spent at job sites for labor training.
"Appointed" local workforce boards match "learners" with local businesses.
Skill certificates awarded for specific job-readiness. Certificates will become mandatory for future hiring decisions.

Required "Lifework Plan" follows individual from "cradle-to-grave".
ALL students, all schools (public, private & home-based), all businesses expected to participate.
Federal government forces compliance of all "partners" through rewards/sanctions.
Government dominates all partnerships.
State defines new "covenant" with parents for raising children.
Students, workers, employers, educators & parents held accountable to government-defined "performance" outcomes.
All 50 states currently implementing system.
Current reauthorization of elementary and secondary education act (HR1/S1) cements entire system in place.

Bottom Line: Government is implementing policies that will lead to poverty, not prosperity, by adopting the failed ideas of a state-planned and managed economy similar to that of the former Soviet Union. In economics, career, and education, government narrows individual choice. This system is based upon a utilitarian worldview that measures human value only in terms of productive capability for the "best interests of the state". Individual freedom is subservient to a collective society.

For more information see Maple River Education Coalition PAC www.MrEdCoPAC.org: 651-646-0646
© 2001 Michael J. Chapman and Senator Michele Bachmann. Permission granted to copy and distribute.

I am speechless

btt

Thanks for the link, and keep up the vigilance. It helps! It was mostly neutral, although the submitted lesson plans had one or two inklings of individual teacher preferences. Before I even looked through it, though, I would've agreed with you that most educational organizations are incredibly Leftist and are actively Progressive movements. I was just defending a rather innocent-looking curriculum description. The body that came up with it probably has major connections to Socialist movements, and probably has many methods for promoting them within that curriculum... but any decent teacher could also use that syllabus to teach a balanced (or even unabashedly capitalist-leaning!) class.

Of course I think the reason the FTE is supporting the Sea Cadets is more nefarious. I just don't trust the fact that this group(FTE) seemingly has nothing in common with the Sea Cadets program. It just doesn't make sense. Here's the Sea Cadets link, you can see for yourself.

Sea Cadets

I will of course keep looking to see if I can find more information.

Anyone got as copy of the "10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto" handy ??

I'm sure that this is mentioned, somewhere, in there......