During the dwindling days of his presidency in 1992, GHW Bush not only sold America down the tube by signing Agenda 21, he also participated in selling out our education system.
In August, 1992, Lamar Alexander, U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) Secretary, participated in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Education Ministerial Meeting. The theme of this cooperation in education was defining "Education Standards for the Twenty-First Century." Identified as common interests were "economic growth and cooperation, development of new technologies in the service of human well-being, protection of the environment, mutual understanding, and promotion of world peace." Internationalization of the world economy was used to justify this change in our education system using examples of common student needs such as developing a strong skills foundation in literacy and numeracy; learning to reason and solve problems; developing an international perspective and understanding, and appreciation, of other cultures; familiarization with technologies that can make human interaction with nature and knowledge more fruitful; and learning to work cooperatively with others. Beginning on page 5 of this document, Mr. Alexander trashes the school system in the United States, lauding education systems in other countries, and making a bold statement about his impression of our culture, "In the 1950s in this country there used to be a television show called "Ozzie and Harriet," which was the idealized American family mom, dad, and two children named Ricky and David. This is not the Ozzie and Harriet generation anymore in the United States, and our schools should be structured differently." "In the United States, our schools are structured for a different era they're stuck in a time warp." Did he not realize that authority over schools is granted at a local level through school boards? Perhaps the agenda to nationalize our education system was cleverly disguised as this, "So when we use the word "national" in terms of education, it means coming to some consensus or setting a direction. It means working to gain agreement of states and local governments. We don't give orders from Washington, D.C. about what the national curriculum ought to be." Oh, yes sir, this was the beginning of nationalizing and taking over our education system. The strategy to decentralize education was outlined by Mr. Alexander, "...first, adopt the National Education Goals; second, develop their own strategy for reaching them; third, issue a report card on that progress; and fourth, think about creating at least one break-the-mold New American School, a school that would address the way children are growing up today." Responding to a question, Mr. Alexander stated the push for nationalizing our education system was coming from the business community and educators such as the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. In violation of our Constitution, Mr. Alexander stated standards would be established through "national consensus", not legislation. Mr. Alexander is now a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Given he doesn't see legislation as being necessary to execute his agendas, it is rather frightening he is a Senator. It is unclear if the USDOE continues to participate in APEC, the links on their website don't work and they were not present in the 2017 meeting. It's here, it is documented that the federal government laid plans to take over and nationalize the education system. What more do our legislators need to have in order to throw Common Core out and re-establish our local school boards and parents as the authority in our schools? Students were better educated during the Ozzie & Harriet days than now, seems like we should go back to those "time warp" days.
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