CB> MS>I'll ask the question that Shanker doesn't want to hear: why 
CB> MS>_should_ 
CB> MS>businesses care about HS achievement?
CB> 
CB> Fair question, but I'm going to begin by answering with questions of 
CB> my 
CB> own.  If they _shouldn't_ care (as you suggest), then why _do_ they 
CB> care?  
    I'm suggesting that businesses are conning educators and parents by 
pretending to care.  
    After all, how many Fortune 500 companies spend a fortune on "public 
relations" at the same time they close factories here and move production 
overseas?
CB> workplace?  Why are there frequent vocal complaints by business 
CB> leaders 
CB> that those they hire can't read and do math?  And yet, why do these 
CB> business leaders continue to hire students without checking their 
CB> high 
CB> school transcripts to see what kind of grades they got in English and 
CB> math?
    Because the Fortune 500's "concern" about K-12 education is just their 
latest public relations gimmick.
CB> And yet business leaders attended the education summit in New Jersey 
CB> last spring in droves and voiced their concerns over the quality of 
CB> the 
CB> education of those graduating from our high schools. 
    A good photo op.
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