Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

262 Labor for Students: Beijing Moves Again to Control Citizenry” which mirrored and elaborated on the above-excerpted article of September 9. The Post reported: The mandatory labor requirement is the latest in a series of measures taken by the government to punish, restrict and reeducate Chinese students, particularly those in the capital, since the democracy movement was crushed by the army in early June. ...The newly announced measure is reminiscent of the approach taken by the Chinese government in the 1950s, when students worked for several hours a week either in factories or in workshops established on school premises.... In another development, students at two leading Beijing universities this week revealed that students will be required to take a test of their political reliability before being allowed to formally enroll. K ENTUCKY S UPREME C OURT RULED IN R OSE V . C OUNCIL FOR B ETTER E DUCATION , I NC . IN 1989. The importance of the ruling in this case cannot be over emphasized since it called for a re distribution of wealth (equalization) plan for Kentucky. The same plan was recommended by David Hornbeck for all the states in November of 1987. It was not long before Hornbeck and his fellow change agents, including Luvern Cunningham of Ohio State University and “site based management/lessen elected school board influence” reputation, descended on Daniel Boone’s country. The following excerpt detailing the Kentucky story was taken from A Citizen’s Handbook: The Kentucky Education Reform Act—Historical Background, Provisions, Time Line, Questions and Answers, Court Cases, Overview (Kentucky Legislative Research Commission: Frankfurt, Kentucky, September 1996): This decision applies to the entire sweep of the system—all its parts and parcels. This de cision applies to all the statutes creating, implementing and financing the system and to all regulations, etc., pertaining thereto. This decision covers the creation of local school districts, school boards, and the Kentucky Department of Education to the Foundation Program and Power Equalization Program. It covers school construction and maintenance, teacher certi fication—the whole gamut of the common school system in Kentucky.... Since we have, by this decision, declared the system of common schools in Kentucky to be unconstitutional, Section 183 places an absolute duty on the General Assembly to re-create, re-establish a new system of common schools in the Commonwealth. — Rose at 215, 216. I N 1989 S HIRLEY M C C UNE , SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. D EPARTMENT OF E DUCATION - funded MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), told the teachers in South Kitsap, Washington: “The school of the future must be far different than that of today to meet the changing needs of society.” The following excerpts are taken from an article entitled “Schools of the Future” which was published in the Bremerton [Washington] Sun on October 14th: When you walk in the building, there’s a row of offices. In one are drug counselors. One is for social security. Another, family and child psychologists. Yet another has a doctor and nurse who do well-child exams. In the cafeteria, senior citizens mingle with students having lunch. Oldsters and young sters are sometimes paired for school projects, like oral history. There’s a child-care center, and tied into it are classes for teenagers where they learn