Re: Helping a teacher

[Judi Hirsch <judih@OUSD.K12.CA.US>]

I'd be leery of anything that used test scores and sent them to businesses,
too
Judi
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From: Bonnie Blustein <bonnie.blustein@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: Helping a teacher


> This does not sound paranoid to me at all.  I, too, am leery of
> school-to-work, though I know that some decent (even good) programs are
> riding on this particular wave.  The whole history of public schools is of
> corporate America sorting, tracking, and indoctrinating kids into being
> "good workers" to meet whatever their laborpower needs of the moment.  I'm
> all for students being prepared to get jobs (until we can really change
> society so that -work- isn't reduced to "jobs") but they also need to
> prepare to understand and help change society.  Meanwhile, I'm inclined to
> resist anything that smacks of increased corporate influence over the
> schools.
> >
> > I know this sounds awfully paranoid, but do you think that the data
> > acquired from test scores could be used to track students toward
> > particular job training programs? I'm very leery of school-to-work.
> >
> > Let us know what we can do.
> > Carol
> > www.taasblues.com (still under construction, but we're working on it)
> >
>
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