Calif. election & bilingual education

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 02:17 PM 6/4/98 -0700, Tom Condit wrote:
>David Stratman has put forward the notion that all of this emphasis on
>standards, the implicit revival of tracking, etc., has an underlying logic:
>that late capitalism is in fact not going to produce decent jobs for the
>majority of kids, so a system has to be put in place which will let them
>blame themselves for failing to get the education "necessary" to get decent
>jobs, rather than the system. The strongest evidence for this is, of course,
>the increasing educational requirements for jobs which could in fact be
>performed by people with a sixth-grade education if necessary.

Thanks for your comments.  I think, however, that the drive behind
initiatives like prop 227 are simply a divide and rule tactic of the ruling
class, and sheer opportunism of various pieces of intellectual shit  hoping
to spring their political consulting careers - rather than by the need of
the capitalist system to adjust education to its requirements.  The current
system is working just fine in reproducing social inequalities and I do not
see why the mandarins and brahmins of late capitalism would need to change
that.

School- and teacher- bashing have been a traditional diversion tactic used
by the US oligrachy to difuse any thrust to end their hegemony.  The only
thing that is new is the unprecedented numbers of opportunistic
college-processed lowlife eager to make a personal career by sucking up to
powers that be.

Regards,

Wojtek Sokolowski