Reaction to a report on National Public Radio's All Things Considered about the lengthening of the school year in North Carolina.
The debate over lengthening the school year for students reminds me of the Community Schools initiative that I encountered a few years ago.
The idea of Community Schools, is that the public school system can be transformed, using tax dollars of course, into a hub of community activity. It would be around this hub that educational activities would be built to support the learning process. This would give them the chance to learn more, the logic goes, since they are in school longer.
Of course, the convenient aspect for the Marxists is that the plan would also serve to minimize parental influence, while giving the state greater influence into the children's lives and minds at the age when they're most impressionable.
As Benjamin Kidd, an English sociologist who died in 1916, wrote:
"Oh you blind leaders who seek to convert the world by labored disputations. Step out of the way or the world must fling you aside. Give us the young! Give us the young, and we will create a new mind and a new earth in a single generation."
They've been at it for a while; they'll continue until parents put a stop to it.
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