A Kindergarten Career Test! This is wrong on so many levels–and also very revealing. Read more.

This is a Federal School-to-Work document explaining the new education system which would have as it’s goal the training of human resources. Education would no longer be for the benefit and enrichment of the student; it would no longer be to equip the student with information and knowledge to meet life’s challenges.

The student would be subject to government-defined career tracks, and an obstacle course of assessments and certifications. Different certificates would be needed to enter the workforce. The government becomes the gatekeeper between citizens and their jobs.

It is costly, intrusive, threatens our freedoms and is funded by several levels of the government. This was written before 2001. Now,about a decade later, the programs’ names have been changed, and online education and data collection is so ubiquitous that we are becoming desensitized (or resigned) to this intrusion.

December 10, 1996. Report by Diana Fessler, originally prepared for the Ohio State Board of Education, but also later presented to the Washington State Legislature because School-To-Work affects Washington and every other state as well.

From the testimony made by Lynne Cheney before the House Appropriations Sub-committee on Labor, Health, and Human Services and Education, February 3, 1998.

Speech given at a conference entitled “What Goals 2000 Means to the States,” February 12, 1997

Through the “Career Paths” or “School-to-Work”, the government becomes the gate-keeper which controls marketplace winners and losers. The Federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act was passed in 1994.