Everything's a crisis for these people: Ed Secy Duncan's turn

The Patriot Room ^ | September 5, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

[clyde_m]

Q: What's different for kids today than when you were a kid? They face bigger challenges than when you were a kid. A: I actually think there's more at stake than ever before. It's almost a life-or-death issue today.

[darkwing104]

I this clown insane?

[kittymyrib]

Arne, you ignorant Leftist, do you think it was a piece of cake for children growing up on America’s frontier where marauding Indians scalped parents and kidnapped their children (google Cynthia Ann Parker)? Or children growing up in the Great Depression, when their fathers were riding the rails all over America trying to find a way to put food on their table and my mother put cardboard in her shoes because the holes in the soles were so big? Or even my generation practicing our “duck and cover” exercise in school during the atomic bomb threats of the ‘50s?
Children today are at risk mainly from oppressive government that is cheating them out of a decent education now and whose spending will force them into serfdom in the future.

[cubreporter]

Anyone have that animated laughing mouse available??? This is a good candidate for it.

[Turbo Pig]

Most children today are spoiled, undisciplined, ill informed, and just plain bratty. The only thing different about them from generations past is that they do not have the morals and ethics instilled in them that allows them to over-come these things and become productive, well adjusted adults.

Instead, they emulate the baby boomer generation and live forever in a state of arrested development, saying “Look at me, look at me” and “it’s not my fault”.

I am sick of it, and the a-holes(pardon the language) that try to under cut my parenting at every turn are really getting on my nerves. It irritates the snot out of me that a HUGE portion of the electorate voted in a nincompoop who has created an entire tier of unelected people in the government whose entire goal in life is to under cut me at every level.

[goldi]

They want a longer school year and a longer school day in order to take kids away from their “ignorant” parents and, of course, indoctrinate them.

That’s what all tolalitarian societies do and a lot of people realize it, so good luck with that, Arne.

How come many private schools have a shorter school year than public schools, yet those schools manage to graduate students who go on to good colleges and are able to support themselves?

Do it in 180 days a year max, six hours a day or go into another line of business. The longer kids are subjected to most government schools, the worse off they are.