Here's another hilarious video from the Onion. Hilarious that is, until you read the extension.
'Students First In Line' Program To Offer Job Training At Needy Schools
In late August, Maryland’s Joppatowne High School became the first
school in the country dedicated to churning out would-be Jack Bauers.
The 75 students in the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
magnet program will study cybersecurity and geospatial intelligence,
respond to mock terror attacks, and receive limited security clearances
at the nearby Army chemical warfare lab.The new school is funded and guided by a slew of federal, state, and
local agencies, not to mention several defense firms. Officials say it
will teach kids to understand the "new reality," though they hasten to
add that the school isn’t focused just on terrorism. School
administrators, channeling Cheneyesque secrecy, refused to be
interviewed for this story. But it’s no secret that the program is seen
as a model for the rest of the country, with the Pentagon and other
agencies watching closely.
More here. And do remember that vouchers are a bad ideas because we need public education to teach civic values.
Things wrong with this video.
1. Too few black people.
2. The military is not an underclass affair. The underclass disproportionally fail the strict military IQ tests. The military do not accept people below IQ 92, which would include most of the underclass.
The Onion has made this mistake before.
The big difference between the Onion parody, and the real life program is that the real program is not targeted at an underachieving poor population and offers advanced science programs (and as a launch point for bright students who want to go to West Point). It is a trial program at a high school in Maryland presumably because of its vicinity to the Pentagon and to Washington, not because the government is training a ghetto school for extra expendable soldiers.
Did someone notice in the news crawl that their was one about a Fairfax, VA charity shit-a-thon. Terrible in theory, execution.
Do you think that was a sneaky and vague smear at GMU? I may be just stretching things here.
But schools don’t teach civic values any more, so what’s the problem?
Sorry, but I’m not offended. Just another vo-tech school. Whatever. The chances of a real curriculum are practically zero. If it does have a real curriculum, the kids will have options. If not, it’s no worse than the peace studies they are taught in Orinda.
That’s the problem with making relevance the big issue in education. It’s all okay when it’s your version of relevant, but the sword always cuts both ways.
Marco, I think he was being ironic. Sorta like the Onion clip.
(However, I wasn’t. That really would be uber-sweet.)
The sad part is that I think a genuine Emergency Preparedness charter school could be valuable and interesting. But the class descriptions don’t mention the likely emergencies, like flood, power outages, blizzards. Shame to waste what could be a neat program.
@Mike:
Perhaps you should look at your job offers more carefully? I mean, there are always good jobs in a specific market segment, and bad ones. However, the market isn’t there to protect stupid decision, which is to stay in a job that you don’t like for an amount of money you don’t like…
Perhaps, you should change your field of work?
Nazi Youth? Seems like the creation of the thug class to me…
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