A culmination of Laws
passed by Congress
(with no public debate)
is about to make
radical changes in our lives
. . . .
and especially in the lives of our children.

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Tangled Web

A cumulative report
incorporating research of original documents
concerning School-to-Work
(also called Community Careers)

Researched and Compiled
by Joe Esposito

Introduction

In 1990 Congress passed Public Law 101-392, the Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act Amendments of 1990. This law and others are being misrepresented to the public as primarily a means to facilitate the preparation of high school students for jobs. In reality they are being used to radically transform both education and Òthe workforceÓ in the United States Ñ in other words, to overturn AmericaÕs existing social order which is based on individual freedom and familial responsibility. These laws have now culminated in what is commonly called "School-to-Work."

Serving on Governor Frank KeatingÕs Oklahoma School-to-Work (STW) Executive Council (which was assigned to oversee the implementation of STW in Oklahoma) alerted me to the extent of activities related to STW. To obtain enough of the puzzle pieces to see what is happening with education restructuring and workforce development here in America, I have spent twelve months researching documents on STW. The result of my research is this collection of excerpts from documents, by which I intend to show:

1. The interlocking relationship between National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), which produced AmericaÕs Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, the Department of LaborÕs SecretaryÕs Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), and the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB);

2. The ideas and goals which are common to the above organizations and education and business associations;

3. The deception and arrogance of the promoters of "School-to-Work;"

4. The planned national control of all facets and types of education and the "workforce," which is, let us not forget, composed of individuals, your children and mine, who should be free to plan their own careers and occupations, rather than being considered human chattel or raw material to be molded and controlled by, and for the benefit of, a partnership of governmental bureaucrats, educationists, and major industry and organized labor.

What is School-to-Work?

How is it being implemented?

What will be its effects?

STW appears to be a total restructuring of education and the "workforce" in America by Vocational-Technical Educators. The purpose is to bring the United States into line with the European system of government control. This transformation is being accomplished through the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) produced by the Department of Labor. SCANS incorporates Total Quality Management (TQM), a concept defined and process designed by W. Edwards Deming, J.M. Juran, and Philip Crosby Ñ all of whom are engaged in social engineering. In a new book, The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus, the authors say, "É wherever one looks, management theorists are laying down the law, reshaping institutions, refashioning the language, and, above all, reorganizing people's lives." TQM is a program which intentionally changes personal values to conform to those of management or government. TQM is a concept incorporated in America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages from the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) of which Marc Tucker, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ira Magaziner, et al, are board members.

Will you or your children be tracked into a U.S. Department of LaborÕs Task ID#: 8091631? Look at this example of a Task Skill from the U.S. Department of LaborÉ (The acronym for all this is SCANS, see Appendix I.)

DOCUMENT: SCANS-Skills and Tasks for Jobs Ñ A SCANS Report for America 2000, The SecretaryÕs Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor (April 1992)

Job: Farmer Ñ Participates as a Member of a Team (C09)
Handle Manure (e.g., cleaning the barn and spreading manure on fields). To perform this task, one farmer sets the spreader in place (farmhand A). The other farmer, using a tractor with loader, fills the spreader (farmhand B). Then the first farmer spreads the manure on the field. Once the manure is spread, both farmers use hand scrapers and shovels to clean areas missed by the tractor. Task ID#: 8091631 (page 3-197) [See Appendix II]

This task ID#: 8091631 is one of several that was used as an illustration in Tasks for Jobs. The above task, as all tasks, will be rated in descending order of importance, which indicates how minutely jobs will be analyzed, standardized, and controlled.

Do Americans agree with these social engineers

that it takes a village (the government)

to raise, educate, and provide jobs for our children?

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