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“Elkhart becomes fourth district to join County Education Alliance,” Feb. 15
Find it here: http://bit.ly/zS0wL4
• TheLibertyScale — Once again the people of Elkhart County are getting exactly what they deserve. This phony Education Alliance is just the Horizon project under a new name.
Some diligent people traced the roots of the Horizon project and found what many that may have been involved with the project didn’t know, that it’s foundation was developed by people with Marxist, communist ties. So they did what progressives always do they renamed it.
A Republican progressive is not better than a Democrat progressive and Mike Yoder is a progressive. If people let him get by the primary they deserve everything they get. The caveat here is who are you going to replace him with? I don’t hear any candidates talking about liberty out there.
For those that don’t know what the Horizon/Ed. Alliance is, it’s a plan to get children away from their parents at an even younger age. The believe that a 10 year old should be planning his future career in the working class.
This is total Marxism with a planned workforce. This has nothing what so ever with bringing up the next generation of Entrepreneurs and innovators. This is about animal training the next generation of worker bees that will obey orders.
• boatkittens — This is excellent news!
When bright minds come together and expose new minds to what is available out in the real world, we can accomplish so much more than those who only know a life locked in a sealed chamber.
I’m so glad to see people who actually want to make a difference for our children.
Smart people! Getting kids to think about college and careers early on before they develop the attitude that success is out of their reach — this can only make things better for the next generations and our country’s future.
The only real slave is the uneducated.
• RDWilson — 40 years ago when I graduated from high school the counselors really weren’t pushing higher education. In 1972 we were more worried about being sent to Viet Nam than going to college. That is also the days of 8 track tape players and it was neat to drive around with the windows up to make everyone think you had air conditioning in your car even though you didn’t. How things have changed. Now we compete in a global market. Jobs are harder to get. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that the U.S. trade deficit with China has coast America 2.8 million jobs between 2001 and 2010 alone. In order to compete we simply must change the way we educate our children. If we hope to have any chance of turning this around we have to work smarter not harder. The Alliance is just one of many ideas floating around to give students more incentive to seek higher education. And all it really does is provide the way not necessarily the means to accomplish this. Teachers do not tell local government how to plow snow. In turn local government is not going to tell teachers how to teach.
• truthuser — Yes it will. One of the project goals is to increase local taxes to the county and local schools. The taxes will be funneled through the county. Look at the Horizon Project 2.0 history.
If this happens at some point not too far down the road the county will say since they are helping fund the schools, they should have a say on how they are run.
This is what is happening with the state and feds.
This has very little to do with improving education. It’s about increasing taxes.
• purdue22 — I want what Horizon 2.0 is selling!
If our kids — I include my own — graduate without having given much thought to their livelihood for the next 40 years, let alone their prosperity, they’ll be working in a factory or gas station no matter what their potential could have been.
To craft a profession or get paid for one’s true avocation, you don’t just land there by accident. I wish someone would have championed this before we had so many with one or two skills landing on the sidewalk the past few years.
Commissioner Mike Yoder, keep it going! You are an exceptional leader! Of course it’s very hard work, and you will take some bullying for doing the right thing.
You have my support.
