RETRAC: Restoring America's Promise

                This RETRAC Website was first uploaded January 1, 1996.
       The site was hand-coded in HTML by Jill Applegate. Since then, the topic has remained the same;
          the content has been updated and edited to meet the changing realities of American society.

  
   First, we need to resolve the "Job Decession"
   and while we are doing that, install Strategies that
   will prevent history from repeating itself. The "Job
   Decession", 2008-2014, can be fixed by getting
   Americans back to work -- productive, constructive
   work -- that produces competitive products. 
   Ending the "Job Decession" starts with a
   competition between communities -- Jobs are not

   a commodity. Jobs are the reward for civic competitive

   competence.
   Creating a "magnet" community that attracts existing

   companies and their potential jobs from other areas, or

   offering entrepreneurs in other areas the opportunity to

   create a new business in a new community, challenges

   a community's commercial and political leadership.

   To attract businesses, a community must upgrade

   its local schools to provide a tech-trainable workforce

   for the new businesses that will create new jobs.

   Americans need to reconsider U.S. "schooling for

   schooling's sake" that has driven America to it

   knees (circa 1970-2010). The hi-tech, value-driven,
   competitive global economy will not reward the
   un-trainable, the slow adapters, or traditional  public

   or private bureaucracies. Breaking News (PDF; 2 pages)

America's high schools must begin to graduate
tech-trainable students. Tech-trainable means:
A "quick study" who is familiar with the STEM principles
that drive technology; adaptable to new circumstances;
and not threatened by computer-driven tools that have
shifted the U.S. workforce from direct labor skills to
indirect labor skills (from left brain to right brain driven).
America must shift from Narrative-driven schooling to
STEM-driven schooling --
Our Strategy is based on: "What is the least you need
need to know, to know what you need to know, to initiate a
successful initiative." Discovering that Strategy starts here --
Dynamics of local jobs creation in USA today (PDF; 1 page)
 
Creating jobs requires "change".  New jobs will 
"change" a community's workforce. The "change"
 required by new jobs will be opposed by established
"power centers". Long established power centers will
 destroy their community rather than allow "change".
The generation that needs the new jobs has to assert
their Right to a future of their choice -- 
Don't Tread On Me! (PDF; 1 page)

A quick view of --
The American Judicial System (PDF; 1 page)

   Only a community's "Bill of Rights Club" can remove 
   the #1 obstacle to a community's economic growth 
   and development -- "failing" public schools. Schools
   don't have a problem. Schools are the problem.
   U.S. schooling practices will change when local tax-
   payers learn to use the U.S. Constitution appropriately.
   U.S. Schooling, K-16, is responsible for parsing 
   America. U.S. Schools have created  a whole new
   segment of American society -- State-licensed
   Professional Parasites. Professional Parasites are 
   paid to deal with problems, not to solve problems.
   The Professional Parasites, who staff U.S. Schools and
   professional services, feed on the American body-politic,
   and are sapping the strength and vitality from U.S. 
   students with the Principles of Professional Parasites -- 
   "Conform, Comply, or Good-bye."

The result -- over 80% of school dropouts are male. By
2020, it is estimated that 80% of graduating college
students will be female. Over 98% of all innovators and
inventors are male. That tells you all you need to know
about the prospects for America's future.
Failing local public schools do not attract competitive,
highly skilled new residents who can raise average-
household-income and home values in a local community.
Failing schools derive their support and protection from
State Departments of Education. Hanging a Banner  over the entrance to
their school that states --

Get more information
• Direct from Silicon Valley --
   The hi-tech world's Definition of "STEM" (PDF; 1 page)

• What Tech-sTem testing measures and reveals about
   students' potential: About Tech-sTem Testing (PDF ;1 page)
   Testing for student Tech-sTem aptitude is available --
   Level 1: Grades 5-8; and Level 2: Grades 9-12. For more

   information or to purchase student Tech-sTem testing,
   please Email Us.

• How-to Create a Tech-trainable workforce.
   To examine STEM-based schooling's perspectives

   and practices: www.SchoolingForAllStudents.com
• How-to Create jobs in Florida
   A community that can tell the world it has a tech-trainable
   workforce will be deluged with relocation inquiries.
   Contact us for more information: info@retrac.com
  

       • John M. Comer has spent a good portion of his life 
            discovering "why he was, who he was".

            John's Bio (PDF; 1 page)

                 • Who Knows the Proponent:

  Several References that may be of interest (PDF; 1 page)