Marc Tucker's "cradle-to-grave" plan or the more recent "school-to-work" is a form of education in which students are trained for certain jobs in the workforce and are not taught the traditional way of learning basic knowledge and skills. In the position statement "School-to-Work Will Train, Not Educate," the author Phyllis Schlafly explains that school-to-work should be "defunded" because "[t]here's a big difference between educating a child and training him or her to work." She further states that training is "what you do to your dog." Is the School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STW) such a horrible educating technique and proposition or can it perhaps improve the global economy? In her opinion, Schlafly believes that school-to-work should be eliminated. She begins by explaining Marc Tucker's, the president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, "cradle-to-grave" plan written in his famous letter in 1992 and how his idea is to train children so that they could be automatically placed on the labor force. She also makes a distinction between educating and training and explains that educating is developing skills by teaching; and training is to

teach someone how to do certain tasks efficiently with consistent practice which is the same we do with animals and what the STW is promoting: "'performance-based' training" where workforce development boards would decide the student's future. She further says that the STW laws to start training students begin too early and that children in elementary school are too young to make their career decisions so individual grades would become mean less because in the STW format, there is "group grading" where students are taught to be "'team workers'" and not individual "achievers." Furthermore, she writes that corporations would support school-to-work because the schools will do their job training instead of them and they would benefit from the taxpayers for paying for the schooling and governors would also support it because it would allow them to control a large sum of money in which the state legislature would never know about by "bypassing elected representatives." The author concludes by stating that school-to-work is dangerous to students and should be enabled.

Education is essential for any child in the world to lead a successful life and s/he should therefore be taught how to read, write, and calculate. How

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