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The primary purpose of publicPublic schools isare to teach critical thinking skills, reading, writing, arithmetic, phonics, history, science, and character as well as knowledge-based education, not job training. We support knowledge-based curriculum standards and tests. We support successful career and technology programs, but oppose mandatory career training. We oppose Outcome-Based Education (OBE) and similar programs. Further, because of an aging U.S. population and global competition, and because much of today's education teaches children to be employees or perhaps at best managers for employers, we encourage the teaching of entrepreneurial skills and investment skills.

Phonics is a method to learn reading and is not a basic skill.

"Career and technology programs" are in fact "job training." You cannot decry it and then support it.

There is no credible movement to have mandatory job training.

Outcome-based education is largely misconstrued. It was a lightning rod in the '80s and early '90s because in some cases it was accompanied by reduced standards. OBE is normative in public schools today and has resulted in increased standards.

"Entrepreneurial skills and investment skills" are not basic skills that need to be mandatory parts of public education.

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