{"id":1800,"date":"2020-01-16T20:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2020-01-16T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:17:27","slug":"new-jersey-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2020\/01\/16\/new-jersey-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey: Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roi-nj.com\/2020\/01\/14\/politics\/murphy-to-unveil-jobs-nj-program-wednesday-after-announcing-it-during-state-of-the-state\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Governnor Murphy announces ensuring students aligned to workforce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above article prompted me to send the following email to the Editor of the New Jersey Star Ledger:<\/p>\n<p>Hello, from Charlotte Iserbyt in Maine:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know where Mulshine is now. However, he sure saw the future 22 years ago.  If your paper has his address, please forward this to him!<\/p>\n<p>I am the author of  the deliberate dumbing down of america, 1999, now out of print but available as a PDF at my website deliberatedumbingdown.com<\/p>\n<p>A Brazilian publisher has recently  translated my book into Portuguese.  Book was pretty much boycotted in USA!<\/p>\n<p>My parents lived in Gladstone for thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE NEW JERSEY!<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Following is (1998 Newark, NJ Star Ledger) Paul Mulshine&#8217;s  warning regarding workforce training agenda TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO.<\/p>\n<p>Good for Mulshine.  Nobody listened to even good guys in major media.  Whatever lead us to believe Americans would listen to us KOOK parents\/researchers?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOMING SOON TO A SCHOOL NEAR YOU: FORCED LABOR\u201d BY PAUL MULSHINE, COLUMNIST, was originally published in the November 29, 1998 issue of the Newark, New Jersey Star-Ledger.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from Mulshine\u2019s article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Imagine a state that uses its school system not to produce independent-minded, broadly educated citizens, but compliant workers trained to behave. A state where, in their early teens, children are forced to make a lifelong decision from 14 government-sanctioned career possibilities with such depressing titles as \u201cwaste management,\u201d \u201cadministrative services\u201d and \u201cmanufacturing, installation and repair.\u201d A state where students in the government schools are forced to spend one day a week toiling in menial labor. The old Soviet Union? China? Nope. New Jersey.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I wish I were making this up. But I\u2019m not. This is a fair summation\u2014minus the jargon\u2014 of the School-to-Work program that the state is planning to impose on us next year.  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Governnor Murphy announces ensuring students aligned to workforce The above article prompted me to send the following email to the Editor of the New Jersey Star Ledger: Hello, from Charlotte Iserbyt in Maine: Don&#8217;t know where Mulshine is now. However, he sure saw the future 22 years ago. If your paper has his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}