Great essay by Ann Jones about how the US indoctrinates our children for war:
A senior boy, who had also signed up with the recruiter, wanted to escape the violence of city streets. He joined up shortly after one of his best friends, caught in the crossfire of somebody else’s fight, was killed in a convenience store just down the block from the school. He told me, “I’ve got no future here. I might as well be in Afghanistan.” He thought his chances of survival would be better there, but he worried about the fact that he had to finish high school before reporting for “duty.” He said, “I just hope I can make it to the war.”
What kind of school system gives boys and girls such “choices”? What kind of country?
What goes on in schools in your town? Isn’t it time you found out?
[You can read the rest @ http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175784/tomgram%3A_ann_jones%2C_suffer_the_children/]
Isn't it the height of hypocrisy that stuff like this goes on while at the same time we punish kids for "playing Army" by themselves?
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/12/17/5-year-old-suspended-for-making-gun-gesture-with-hand/
I think our teachers and school administrators are retarded. If you can, take your children to Finland ... where schools will treat them like valuable human beings and not like potential terrorists and criminals.
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