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.

This Federal publication gives a government job description of a large list of jobs, and explains how the government thinks this job is done. I doubt if a bureaucrat, sitting in Washington D.C. is familiar with all these jobs…such as manure-spreader, for example….yet here are the government specifications for these tasks.
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The disturbing education issue that is not being mentioned in the media or by policy makers is the massive amount of personal information that will be collected on every child, all in the name of “education.” Ultimately, the government will have archived massive amounts of personal information about every person from birth.

Senator Gorton speaking out in response to CURE’s concern with federal involvement in state education.

The 2001 education law, “No Child Left Behind” creates even more mischief than Goals 2000! This commentary deals with its effect on private schools and homeschoolers.

Former Governor Fob James’ letter to the editor “A Few Reasons to Say No” to Goals 2000.

Maple River Education Coalition, also known as Ed Watch, issued an article about Goals 2000’s push for Early Education, January 2001.

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

“While the school says it sent notices home to the parents of all the girls, many parents claimed that they had not received them. The genital exam was not mentioned in the notice…..” This occurred March 19, 1996.

A commentary from the late 1990s:
– “The out–of–touch educational establishment has given us a set of Language Arts (English) Standards that make the universally condemned history standards look acceptable by comparison.”