Choose your life path…in 9th grade
Jun 6, 2009 Governmental Reach
I am catching up on my stack(s) of reading material that I have fallen behind on over the last several months and finally got to the January edition of Session Weekly. In it, I see where the “Governor’s Workforce Development Council” recommended policy where each student, from 9th grade on, would be required to have a career plan in place and have it reviewed annually until they were through with high school.
Rep. Steve Gottwalt (R-St. Cloud): “I get awfully concerned when we’re talking about mandating things on ninth graders and graduates in high school. The fact that we might require them to start building a creer path too early or too arbitrarily is a bit of a concern.”
Yet another instance where government considers themselves omniscient, and can quickly and efficiently make decisions that often take people a lifetime to make (for good and bad reasons). Yet another example where communistic ideas are creeping into our everyday lives, and without much of a fight, while people like Rep. Jeanne Poppe continue on a dangerous course.
“Ninth grade, to me, is almost too late to be thinking about where they want to be going,” said Poppe.
It’s all fun and games until some “expert” tells a 9th grader that it’s unrealistic that they will be a bio-medical engineer and starts them down a path far less challenging and rewarding. The “program” could self-fulfill their own prophecies, but that won’t make it a successful one.
