Color me not shocked:
Of course, b/c kids = human capital to them MT @LindsayWagnerNC:NC Chamber rejects NCGA proposal to ditch CommonCore http://t.co/l4JpDPYvg3
— LL1885 - A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) April 27, 2014
Totally predictable. I sat in the meeting where Gary Salamido, Vice President of Government Affairs for the NC Chamber, got up in front of the NCGA's Common Core LRC and managed to skip talking about or saying the word children. Instead his terminology was 'talent supply', 'skilled worker' or generically a couple mentioning of 'students'. His speech was all about creating a nice compliant workforce. It was about jobs standards, not the education of our children. To Salamido and the NC Chamber, this is about 'jobs' in the future... which even they cannot predict the future of or availability of. Even their press release rejecting the NCGA's steps to remove Common Core is devoid of the words kids, child or children. Continue reading ![]()
