Obama administration floats the idea of “public boarding schools” … you know, for teh childrens!
Last week at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention organized by the Department of Education, the Department of Justice and other various federal agencies, Secretary of Education Secretary Arne Duncan did what leftist bureaucrats have done throughout history: announce the dream of supplanting parents with the state by taking control of children “24/7.”
He couched it slightly differently, but not by much.
Mr. Duncan touted the possibility of “public boarding schools.” He said to the gathered crowd of federal bureaucrats and apparatchiks, “One idea that I threw out … is the idea of public boarding schools. That’s a little bit of a different idea — a controversy (sic) idea — but the question is do we have some children where there’s not a mom, there’s not a dad, there’s not a grandma, there’s just nobody at home?”
“There’s just certain kids we should have 24/7 to really create a safe environment and give them a chance to be successful,” he said.
Nothing screams liberalism like a policy wonk who insists on confiscating your children because of the cultural hell the bureaucrats themselves created.
Since President Carter created the Department of Education in 1979, we have poured trillions of dollars into the public school system as the federal government increasingly micromanages what and how your children are taught.
The result is horrifying: According to StudentsFirst, in 2012, the United States placed 27th out of 34 countries in math performance and 20th in science performance. They also report, “Sixty-six percent of all U.S. fourth graders scored “below proficient” on the 2013 National Assessment of Education Progress reading test, meaning that they are not reading at grade level. Even more alarming is the fact that among students from low-income backgrounds, 80 percent score below grade level in reading.”
According to the Department of Education itself, and reported by The Huffington Post, 32 million adults, or 14 percent of the population, in the United States can’t read. Twenty-one percent of adults in the U.S. read below a fifth grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can’t read.
In testimony to Congress in 2011, Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute noted, “We spent over $151,000 per student sending the graduating class of 2009 through public schools. That is nearly three times as much as we spent on the graduating class of 1970, adjusting for inflation. Despite that massive real spending increase, overall achievement has stagnated or declined, depending on the subject.” […]
Liberal politicians know American families, if left unmolested, raise children with faith and values; we raise center-right children. This is not good news for big-government liberals. How best to intervene? Make sure public schools, using federally mandated curriculum, spend more time with your children than you do.
So far, it has worked out well for the establishment: An American citizenry that is functionally illiterate has less control over their lives, is more inclined to be told what to do, and less able to fight back.
So let’s not let this crisis of education go to waste. Let’s make it even worse with “public boarding schools.” How convenient. After all, what could go wrong?
Vouchers for private boarding schools could help some kids. Wouldn’t want the state making the decision or running the school though.
It takes a village to raze a child.
How else are they going to get the troops needed to ensure that the rest of us attend “Fun Camp”?
“Your kids first, pal. Keep your hands off mine.”
“. . . we should have 24/7 . . .”
Ah yes then, what better than to integrate them into yourselves, oh most liberal of liberal meaners, permanently?
Ahhhh….Public Boarding Schools…where Pederasts – like Arne – can enjoy a ‘safe environment’.
PROGRESS!
LEAN FORWARD [And Bend Over]!
he’s a very strange dude, Arne Duncan
but this is some twisted Dickens-assed bullshit
piece of shit failmerica can’t afford the shitty schools they got now
arne is a kinda gay name
IIRC Nicolae Ceau?escu would raise all the unadoptable boys in special schools to be the future state policemen.
Not to Godwin this, but take a serious look at the way the Brown Shirts operated in Germany during the rise of the 3rd Reich. Eerily similar.
Remember when Gingrich got buttfucked for even mentioning orphanages? Golly, those were the days.
I also point out the push to locate and register those children who are home-schooled. Add the two together, and Steve B might not be far off. After all, keeping track of potential trouble spots, from kids who actually get taught the reality of how and why this nation was founded (ProTip: it had NOTHING to do with slavery, and the “3/5 of a person” compromise was to prevent the slave States from breeding their slaves into a electoral majority, much like the modern Democrat Party has done to the inner city populations. Which is why I would vote in favor of anyone receiving more than half of their support from the various government aid programs lose their right to vote until such time as they become self-supporting. )
I heart Uncle Arne!
That the Franchise should be granted to all citizens is a Modern idea, born in the sterile laboratories of the minds of Leftists like Tom Paine.
It is a child of Democracy, that foul plague of Mankind.
Here is the best story I’ve ever read about the soul of our nation and her citizens. Dead now as they may be…
It’s like a Bible chapter, so rich in layers and themes of right and wrong one can hardly take it in all at once!
Didn’t it use to be that the military was a 24/7 boarding school for the kids Duncan is talking about? Sure, they weren’t exactly kids anymore, but….