Career Path

They've just announced that Georgia eighth graders need to choose a career path by the end of the school year.  What are they thinking?

Let me back track for a minute.  Arkansas enacted some sort of academic plan in sixth grade.  The difference is it was much more flexible and general.  Basically college prep or not.  In my opinion that is general enough to accommodate anything a person my choose to do. 

I have a major problem with the Georgia plan.  Granted, I don't have kids in school that young, but I think it's ridiculous.  First, students get to choose from seventeen career paths.  They didn't detail these seventeen paths.  Second, students can change their career path until the end of their ninth grade year.  What?  Are these people crazy?  There are students in college and grad school who don't know which career path they want to take. 

How general are these seventeen paths?  If a student makes a change at the end of ninth grade, how much of the work will be transferred to another path?  How many of these paths will prepare graduates for acceptance in most colleges and universities?  Will students be pigeon holed and stuck all their lives with choices they made in eighth or ninth grade? 

What happened to competently teaching a variety of subjects?  If teachers were left alone to teach content and concepts instead of teaching to standardized tests students would be better prepared for life. 

Parents have got to take a more active role in decisions made by so called educators.  Subjects and content have been made impossible to learn through Common Core.  Don't get me started on political correctness.  Andrea's history teacher was talking about Native Americans and then said the Plains Indians.  Come on, make them all Native Americans or all Indians.

If I could name my school Andrea would graduate from Horizons High School and we'd do straight home schooling next term.  If time travel were possible she'd graduate from ASB in the 1970's.

I'm sick of this bureaucratic nonsense.