Why is it that government officials still constantly talk about
being ready for the 21st Century? Superintendent of Public Instruction
June Atkinson’s Three Little Pigs and the Graduation Project, which Terry directed us to earlier in the day, is just another example of this.
In
this touching and very innovative story, three independent teenage pigs
struggle to meet the expectations of their mother. She wants her
kids to be prepared for the 21st Century.
I don’t think I
traveled back in time. So, please correct me if I’m wrong, but
isn’t it 2007? I think 2007 is a year in the 21st Century.
Shouldn’t the school system set the goal a little higher than just
preparing kids for the 21st Century and maybe prepare kids for, I don’t
know, 2008? I guess June is admitting that for close to a decade
North Carolina graduates were being prepared to work and live in the
20th Century.
Of course, this actually may have been the game
plan. The “Transit 2001” plan, written in the 20th Century for
the 21st Century calls on developing centrally-planned policies that will return us to 20th Century living (approximately the 1930’s).
Government agencies need to get on the same page and answer the following questions:
– What century is it now?
– What century do we want to live in?
– What century do we want to prepare kids to work and live in?
If we are going to build a bridge to the 22nd Century, we need to answer these questions right away.
