What the ‘McDonald’s Career Track’ Means for Our Collective Financial Future
Let me start out by saying that I have lots of respect for McDonalds and their embrace of the moniker that they are America’s best first job. This has nothing to do with them but everything to do with having fair and equitable access to information.
I recently read article about the decline of general eduction in schools.
The author surmised that when the country discounts the benefit of well-rounded general learning, they grow up a population that isn’t able to discern fact from fiction. This is especially important in the realm of governmental misinformation, fake news and everyone with a twitter feed feeling the need to be a citizen reporter.
The article details a confrontation between a rural, poor school district superintendent in Pennsylvania asking for funding and receiving slap in the face rebuttals that cut to the very core of the purpose of education.
Namely — what is the role of public education? Is it to provide a broad general curriculum that allows the child to grow up an informed citizen able to evaluate options while exercising his civic duty? Or is the role of public education purely to provide a (docile) workforce?
While we don’t agree with everything the author wrote, they did make some salient…
