The New York Times seems very concerned that too many kids are learning about discipline, patriotism, leadership, civics, and financial literacy. Such lessons are dangerous to the Left’s mission.
But 50 years later, new conflicts are emerging, as parents in some cities say their children are being forced to put on military uniforms, obey a chain of command and recite patriotic declarations in classes they never wanted to take.
In Chicago, concerns raised by activists, news coverage and an inspector general’s report led the school district to backtrack this year on automatic JROTC enrollments at several high schools that serve primarily lower-income neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides. In other places, the Times found, the practice continues, with students and parents sometimes rebuffed when they fight compulsory enrollment.
JROTC classes, which offer instruction in a wide range of topics, including leadership, civic values, weapons handling and financial literacy, have provided the military with a valuable way to interact with teenagers at a time when it is facing its most serious recruiting challenge since the end of the Vietnam War.
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High school principals who have embraced the program say it motivates students who are struggling, teaches self-discipline to disruptive students and provides those who may feel isolated with a sense of camaraderie. It has found a welcome home in rural areas where the military has deep roots but also in urban centers where educators want to divert students away from drugs or violence and toward what for many can be a promising career or a college scholarship.
And military officials point to research indicating JROTC students have better attendance and graduation rates, and fewer discipline problems at school.
There are plenty of classes that are required in school that do a far worse job of teaching anything. We’d be a better society if more kids stuck with JROTC even if they never enter the military.
Sounds like some Domestic Extremism rising up. Merrick Garland better get his pen ready, we might need another Memo! How dare parents question a school board, principles, or authority!
Domestic extremism? Oh are they using the same tactics Trump supporters used? You know death threats, assaults and such……..
But critics have long contended the program’s militaristic discipline emphasizes obedience over independence and critical thinking.
In the context of today’s public screwels, that irony of that complaint is gargantuan.
Every child can benefit from exposure to organization, discipline, and leadership. Some more than others. JROTC is not much more than introductory exposure to the military world. It ain’t 13 weeks at Parris Island and it ain’t BUDS. JROTC isn’t going to ruin anyone’s child.
>Domestic extremism? Oh are they using the same tactics Trump supporters used? You know death threats, assaults and such……..
Got proof? Arrests? Conviction stats? After all, Biden, his Office and Admin Team, and the head dummy at the DOJ jumped on the now retracted and apologized-for letter. They jumped on it and sent out a request for actions to be taken. Surely that netted some criminal activity? That would be easily gathered from public resources?
FYI, Flunk…
“We regret that we did not review the letter more closely at the time,” NSBA board president Frank S. Henderson, Jr. said. “We apologized in 2021 and acknowledged that the letter should have never been sent—the sentiments shared do not represent the Board’s views or the views of the NSBA. We are focused now on implementing processes to ensure this does not happen again.”
FYI again Flunk…
Liberal fact checkers are running away from these burning pants…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/14/fact-check-false-claim-fbi-anti-crt-protesters-terror-threat/6056516001/
>The letter from the school board group asserted that violent conduct by anti-CRT protesters at board meetings may be rising to a form of domestic terrorism and asked several federal departments, including the FBI, to look into it. But there’s no evidence the FBI agrees the conduct rises to a level of terrorism.
>We rate FALSE the claim that the FBI considers anti-CRT protests a “domestic terror threat”
And so Flunk, because you’re more dense than most everyone else as proven here again in your reply…. my original comment was my sarcastic way of pointing out this inane level of hypocrisy that the Left continues to highlight every day. They flap around more than a flag in a hurricane. So do you, ironically.
And…there…is…our…dummy (again).
One last thing Flunk, you should go back to ignoring posts like these, it’s a much better optic for you than what we see right now.
>But critics have long contended the program’s militaristic discipline emphasizes obedience over independence and critical thinking.
In the context of today’s public screwels, that irony of that complaint is gargantuan.
HEY!!! There is no irony there at all! The public screwels don’t emphasize obedience as proven by student behaviors rampant in those schools and they don’t teach critical thinking by curriculum design. They program children into believing that following PC rules and the concept that liberal Government is always right is a separate form of American independence. There is no real comparison between programming and being made to follow rules.
Jason:
Exhibit #1
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/
Exhibit #2:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/
Exhibit #3:
https://www.kcra.com/article/sutter-creek-parent-assaults-teacher-over-mask-dispute-at-amador-county-school-superintendent/37295267
Exhibit #4:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/conservative-arrested-death-threat-superintendent-district-put-watch-list/
Exhibit #5:
https://www.wsaw.com/2022/04/21/california-man-charged-with-making-terrorist-threat-president-wisconsin-school-board/
And lastly (for now): https://popular.info/p/the-right-wing-operatives-orchestrating
Randy, only one of those (repeated by the way, nicely done on double counting…. are you an election official?) articles mentions Trump, and the links are specious at best. The tenuous links to an organization that has in the past supported Trump, in the one article, are reminiscent of Q Anon sillyness with no facts, no details, and only “this name matches a donor for this name who happened to mention Trump in one facebook post”. You do realize that the Social Media attacks on Conservatives are exposed and over now, right?
I also noticed that not one of those articles you quickly searched for to support your idiocy… none of them mention “Convictions”. Finally, if any of them are updated to, or you find additional ones that do show “Convictions” I’ll gladly support those convictions. Unlike your idiotic idiot buddies, who would attack judges for being “extremist”. Divisive fuck stain that Pelosi is. Divisive fuck stain that you are.
Nice job moving the goal posts Jason. Time and time again when proven wrong,you just change the question. Instead of admitting there have been times when Trump supporters have verbally and physically assaulted teachers and school board members, as I have shown, you instead obfuscate.
Instead maybe do some research yourself. If so you would have found that Jeremy Hanson, charged with making threats, ended threats with “Trump 2024!” And that he was convicted:
But of course that would take brain power and effort So instead you take the lazy way out and personally attack me. I can only conclude you support such threats, otherwise you would attack those making threats, not me pointing them out.
No goal posts were moved, if you were a rational thinking adult, you would have understood that.
>Time and time again when proven wrong,you just change the question.
Lies.