You may have heard the term “innovative school model” before. In Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee General Assembly made an investment that pumps $500 million into this initiative bringing this to every public high school and middle school across the state.
“The future of innovative programs to boost student and workforce readiness in Tennessee is brighter than ever. Through reimagining the high school experience; becoming more strategic about engaging younger students in career exploration; expanding access to courses; improving how data is collected and used; and being even more intentional in how we listen to—and learn from—Tennesseans, we will continue to keep our state’s workforce strong for years to come,” according to information released by Lee and the Tennessee Department of Education.
Tennessee is one of the many states intent on creating “worker bees.” Why is this dangerous? This initiative restricts educational opportunities.
Once upon a time, education was knowledge-based, with schools exposing students to a multitude of different subjects. Everyone had the opportunity to pursue their own personal interests upon graduation. With the workforce training model, data is being used to pigeonhole students into career pathways from a very early age.
A student’s course of study will be dictated by this data. The data will be used by schools and the Department of Labor to determine career pathways that are in demand and a student’s coursework will be formatted to include only what is needed for that career. This effectively strips away a student’s future choices and career opportunities.
These are not the vocation classes you may remember from yesteryear.
In 2006, Vocational Tech was rebranded to Common Career Technical Core. Here, you can see their objectives. The Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) initiative is an effort led by the states to ensure rigorous, high-quality Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs through a set of common CTE standards that will better support students in preparing for high-skill, high-wage, or high-demand careers in the competitive global labor market of the 21st century.
These common standards built from industry-validated Career Cluster Knowledge and Skills statements include:
- Standards for Career Ready Practice
- Career Cluster Anchor Standards, applicable to each of the 16 Career Clusters; and
- Career Pathway Anchor Standards, linked to specific Career Pathways and industry benchmarked when possible
Once common core was exposed as having nefarious roots, educators decided to change the name once again, this time to Career Technical Education. Career Technical Education has 16 career clusters that effectively pigeonhole students.
When you visit the Career Technical Education website at careertech.org, you will see that they refer to the Common Career Technical Core and their standards. Almost every job you can imagine falls under one of these pathways. Students will be slated into one of these pathways in order to fulfill the position of being a producer within the globalist agenda. Sounds Orwellian, right? I wish it were merely fictional. This has been the plan all along and makes perfect sense. It is akin to the Prussian caste system—and we must not forget that our educational system is founded on the Prussian model.
What Type of Data Mining Is Occurring in Our Schools?
Non-cognitive data such as social emotional data and character trait data as well as cognitive data are all necessary in order to produce desired work-based outcomes. The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was changed: now schools can collect our children’s private data without consent. Any entity, in the name of education research, can access data if the schools choose to give it to them—and they are often handing it over.
We now have statewide longitudinal databases set up that are interoperable, meaning they are able to easily exchange this private data that has been collected on children. That data is then being used to create software and education programs for the purpose of modifying our children’s values, beliefs and behaviors.
You can hear more about this on the Free YOUR Children radio show, which can be found on the Free YOUR Children Spotify channel, with guest Alice Linahan.
One way that this data is being collected and utilized is through the various SEL programs that are being implemented in schools across the nation. I have written about the intentions of SEL in a previous Murfreesboro Pulse article titled “What is Social Emotional Learning? More Government Indoctrination.”
Parents need to understand that the current purpose of government school is not to provide their child with an education but simply to decide where they are going to fit in the spokes of the globalist agenda. The assessments that children are being subjected to are for the purpose of designing a workforce that will benefit those in control.
Linahan summed it up when she said, “In this new P-20W [preschool through workforce] global system, all students will be sorted, tracked, assessed and modified by the state; which allows third-party interests (social impact bond investors), in the U.S. and globally to have access to our children, to use as an [investment vehicle for profit], along with controlling the next generation of Americans from cradle to grave.”
UNESCO has been working toward a one-world curriculum for decades. Their Sustainable Development Goals are seeking to do just that.
Our nation’s schools are not producing critical thinkers. They are intent on creating a populace that will simply slide into the job that has been predetermined for them without complaint. The dumbing-down process is almost complete. Are we as a nation going to sit idly by and continue to allow this to happen? Are we going to continue to allow our children to be used as pawns? If you would like more information on how the federal government is usurping your parental rights, the plan to globalize education via mental health initiatives, and what you can do, contact me. The time to act is now.
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