[Olog-hai]

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...

[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.

[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.

[BitWielder1]

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

[BookmanTheJanitor]

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

[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.

[Art in Idaho]

First two thoughts:

Your kids belong to us.

and

It Takes a Village. .

[KC_Lion]

THIS is America's Future if you Don't Act!

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[Steve_Seattle]

"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.”

Well, he's talking about - what? - 20 million kids who don't have an intact family? That's a lot of boarding schools. It's an indirect admission of the utter failure of the sexual revolution and the drug culture and their devastating influence on families. It is further proof that the end result of progressivism is a highly regimented anthill society managed by an elite.

But - really - this is the end-game of where their logic takes them. First it was day care, then early childhood education, then extended hours at community centers, now it's 24/7 boarding schools. For anal-retentive social engineers like Arne Duncan, there is literally no point at which they can say, "HERE we must stop, here we can go no further." It is always more and more; that is what "progressivism" is.

The ultimate goal is the institutionalization of an entire society, the ruling elite excepted. They began chipping away at parental rights about thirty years ago, and they are now approaching the point where children will be taken away from their parents and become wards of the state, whether parents like it or not. Duncan is revisiting an idea that was once used against - you guessed it - Native Americans. Progressivism has come full-circle.

[originalbuckeye]

Obama telegraphed this idea a while back when he said ‘we want all women working’. Sorry, I don't remember exactly when but my thought was ‘yes, so you can control the kids and thus control the parents’.

[nathanbedford]

Leftists, having created the problem with the war on poverty with its perverse unintended consequences, now seeks to solve the problem with more of the same proving out Nathan Bedford's Maxim:

The remedy for failed socialism is invariably more socialism.

One might recall the history of The Carlisle Indian School and the leftist reaction to an undertaking that was motivated by a turn-of-the-century Christian impulse. The left absolutely hates the experiment because it sought to Christianize Indians, civilize them, prepare them for competition in the world and discipline them. Leftists regard that as inappropriate but I suspect their new version of The Carlisle Indian School would have much the same impulse but with all the Christian love carefully laundered out.

The impulse on the left is always the same, to treat people like chickens in a Skinner box and reeducate them according to their values. At least Christians who exposed Indian kids like Jim Thorpe to their school had a decent set of values and a true philosophy. They sought to create a generation of independent people rather than a generation of dependents.

[Paine in the Neck]

Great. They'll be churning out armies of these: Obama Jr. Drill Team

[9YearLurker]

Also coming just after Barry bemoaned the rich (other than he and Shelly, apparently) sending their kids to private school.

What he really meant was no kids should be able to attend private schools unless all kids can.