The Failure Of The Gary Plan

The Gary Plan failed the individual, but it does exactly what it was created for: to churn out an efficient workforce. Students grouped into “platoons”rotated between academic studies, art, and physical education. The idea was to extend the ideas and practices of the business world into schools by decompartmentalizing subjects into assembly line like segments. Therefore, preparing students for most of their upcoming jobs. Also, another part of the plan was to “acculturate” the students into society's core values.
No longer the majority, factory jobs increasingly have either been shipped off to third world countries or automated. Nonetheless, The Gary Plan is still in effect even though it no longer is of use to the