Education Secretary Backs Public Boarding Schools: ‘Certain Kids We Should Have 24/7’

Cybercast News Service ^ | May 12, 2015 | 3:03 PM EDT | Penny Starr

[Olog-hai]

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday proposed the idea of public boarding schools, saying there are “just certain kids we should have 24/7.”

“One idea that I threw out … is the idea of public boarding schools,” Duncan said at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention in Crystal City, Va. “That’s a little bit of a different idea—a controversial 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.” […]

“I think all of our schools should be community centers,” Duncan said. “Our schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day with a wide variety of after-school programming. Thankfully, in the vast, vast majority of communities around the nation, our schools are actually safe havens. … [There’s] very little violence happening in schools. The vast majority is on the streets. If we could keep our kids there longer, we think that makes a lot of sense.” …

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Duncan calls for the state to replace the family, using “safety” as an excuse . . . can’t get more Marxist than that.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You are exactly right. This is getting creepier and creepier.

[jsanders2001]

Well DUH they need slave labor...

[MAexile]

I can think of some kids I went to school with that needed to be monitored by someone 24/7.

Of course, by someone I mean the Department of Corrections...

[dfwgator]

They need to train the future Chekists.

[JimRed]

And they’ll hire queers to watch over the kids at night, maybe?

[Responsibility2nd]

Drip, drip, drip.

Their goals are becoming more obvious and plain.

Drip, hell. This is more of a deluge and a flood overtaking us than a mere drip.

[Teacher317]

You two parents... you go work. Now go work some more. We will keep your children for all of their waking hours. Go work more weekends, too. We will raise them for you.

Just don't expect us to teach them independence, self-reliance, hard-work, Christianity, love of family, patriotism (other than to government), or loyalty.

However, sex ed, the sins of every American hero, homosexuality, hatred of whites, hatred of religion, and self-esteem based on zero achievements... we got that covered, in triplicate.

[Vigilanteman]

A former black co-worker of mine had a junior high boy who was getting in with the wrong crowd. He sent him to a strict Catholic boarding school in Ghana. The room, board, tuition and the round trip airline ticket set him back a little more than $2000. By the next summer, he had a respectful, well-disciplined kid who was anxious to return for another year.

By the time he graduated, he was accepted at a top ranked school with an academic scholarship.

Boarding school was a big factor in this, but so was coming from an intact family which actually gave a damn.

[Mariner]

Eliminate all Welfare and put the kids up in a public boarding school.

If a parent cannot support their children, take them.

Leave the parent destitute.

[hal ogen]

Their are certain “educators” who should be in prison 24/7/

[rlmorel]

"...[There’s] very little violence happening in schools. The vast majority is on the streets. If we could keep our kids there longer, we think that makes a lot of sense...

So. Instead of addressing violence on the streets as SHOULD be done, this liberal wants to make HUGE increases in the amount of money spent in education budgets to keep schools open longer and provide activities at them, including boarding.

On one hand, I want to ridicule his intelligence, but after reflection, it probably isn't his intelligence in question, it is his motives. He wants the government to spend more time with its hands on the students. More money, bigger budgets, more influence (both influence FOR his department, AND influence on the students)

[Forgotten Amendments]

The most sinister and successful tool of the statists/socialists/progressives has been the idea that parents should give their children to the state six hours a day, nine months a year. And most of us grew up thinking it was wholesome.

And now, they want the kids younger and younger.

If they are looking at us from space (or Heaven), just imagine how unbelievable they find this.

[RightGeek]

[BitWielder1]

She's from the department of "Government Does Everything Better".
May I just say (ahem) Amtrak.

[tgusa]

Exactly!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Duncan did a fabulous job when he was the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools (extreme sarcasm)

[Olog-hai]

The only reasons a “parent” could not support his/her child would be apathy (mostly due to selfishness or ideology or a combination of such), destitution due to the state, or state micromanaging in the affairs of the family.

Creating public boarding schools is not “eliminating all welfare” but merely transferring it from one outlet to another. And the state has no right to take kids either way.

[utahagen]

More than twenty years ago, when Newt Gingrich raised the issue of orphanages as a possible solution to the foster care crisis, everyone went nuts. Gingrich was accused of wanting to turn foster kids into modern-day Oliver Twists. Today, the Secretary of Education floats the idea of publis schools for kids NOT in foster care, and everything is hunky-dory.

[Olog-hai]

May as well throw in all the other passenger rail that the government stole from the private sector. And the federal and state highway systems, which they also stole from the private sector in many cases.