I've long contended that the thinking behind child labor laws and compulsory public education were not as well intended as we assume. I believe these measures were part of a broader scheme - a social engineering plan to benefit corporations by killing off competition from small family businesses and, via the public school system, banning father-son apprenticeships and providing instead just enough general education to turn out functioning serfs for big business. No skills, no trades. Just a smattering of basic knowledge to make you able to count widgets and pull levers for the corporations.
So thank you WalMart for validating my theory:
Four Detroit public high schools have decided classroom time should be used to train 60 students to work at Walmart. A new partnership gives participants 11 weeks of job-readiness training during the day and a Walmart job after school. Students earn 10 credits toward graduation…
Advocates say with Detroit’s unofficial unemployment rate nearing 50%, jobs at Walmart are a golden opportunity. Sean Vann, principal of the Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men, has 30 students in the program. He told the Detroit Free Press he’s enthusiastic because along with earning money, since the schools are in the suburbs, the students will be around people from different cultures.
Ironic that the principal of a school named after an 19th century abolitionist and champion of the downtrodden thinks this is all good. Welcome to the new American serfdom.
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I raised hell a number of years ago at my son's school. They were making the kids watch a 15 minute canned TV "news" show every morning that was half full of corporate commercials for expensive sneakers, candy bars, etc.
ReplyDeleteyea, make em into proles. Well, they've already been turned into proles. Too late.