Indoctrination program - AKA "public school" - failing, longer school days, school year needed

This whole world government eugenics plot is falling apart, because kids just haven't been indoctrinated enough. They're thinking too much, they're asking too many questions, they just don't trust authority enough. We need to get 'em back in line. Kill their recess. Keep them totally inactive, so they're fat and lazy. And kill their summer vacation. Can't have them running around enjoying childhood.

The United States gets the education it pays for. Every administration heaps billions and billions of dollars at education, and our kids just keep getting dumber and dumberer. Do you really think this is some sort of accident? Some kind of bureaucratic SNAFU? Franklyn Delano Roosevelt, in one of his rare lucid moments, once said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Our failing education, along with our crumbling social fabric, is purely by design. They don't want you healthy. They don't want you to be upright. They don't want you to be intelligent, and inquisitive. They want you to be obedient. Docile. Subservient. And in this they have achieved great success. To highlight this example, read the following quote from Bertrand Russell:

In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play.... All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called `co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them. (The Scientific Outlook, 1931)

And one more, for good measure:

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so. (The Impact of Science on Society, 1953)

Kinda makes you think, doesn't it? Or maybe it doesn't. Here's 56 channels of NFL. Go back to sleep. Your government has everything under control. You are free ... to do what you are told to do.

Yahoo (AP) -

WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."

The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.

"Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

Fifth-grader Nakany Camara is of two minds. She likes the four-week summer program at her school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. Nakany enjoys seeing her friends there and thinks summer school helped boost her grades from two Cs to the honor roll.

But she doesn't want a longer school day. "I would walk straight out the door," she said.

Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.

"I was like, `Wow, are you serious?'" she said. "That's three more hours I won't be able to chill with my friends after school."

Her school is part of a 3-year-old state initiative to add 300 hours of school time in nearly two dozen schools. Early results are positive. Even reluctant Domonique, who just started ninth grade, feels differently now. "I've learned a lot," she said.

Does Obama want every kid to do these things? School until dinnertime? Summer school? And what about the idea that kids today are overscheduled and need more time to play?

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Obama and Duncan say kids in the United States need more school because kids in other nations have more school.

"Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here," Duncan told the AP. "I want to just level the playing field."

While it is true that kids in many other countries have more school days, it's not true they all spend more time in school.

Kids in the U.S. spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the U.S. on math and science tests — Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days).

Are you as shocked as I am that, albeit casually, this article had the gall - the gall - to point out the government lied about the amount of hours our kids spend in school compared to other countries? Read all of it.