Does this bother anyone else?
Wilmington, Delaware is going to be home to The Academy for Public Safety and Security (APSS), which plans to open its doors by 2010. It will be dedicated to preparing (primarily inner-city) young men and women for front line careers in Homeland Security. Isn't that nice? Equal opportunity for the female youth to serve "The Homeland".
"... we decided to start a new school culture from scratch, one built on the premise that many children would rather be part of the solution than the problem of violence. And, given an education to prepare them academically, socially and vocationally, they will become the best-of-the-best first responders in the homeland security job sector, rather than succumb to apathy or crime."
"The tone of the first responder high school will be that of a military or police academy, complete with uniforms and daily physical training during and after school."
"Student cadets will study careers in SWAT, prison guarding, water rescue, paramedics, firefighting, professional demolition careers, in addition to the usual school subjects. They will learn Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Spanish — any language of use in homeland security."Read more about it in the Newcastle Community News or the Delaware Business Ledger. Students will be called cadets, wear uniforms, and will follow courses of study in special weapons and tactics, prison guarding, professional demolition and other skills needed in an authoritarian police state. Will future generations read about the Liga der amerikanischen Arbeiterjugend (APSS) Cadets like we read about the Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend today?
Another meaningless coincidence: The first national HJ rally was held in 1928 with 600 boys present. The new school expects to take as many as 600 students. Coincidence or not, it still gives me the shivers.
Am I making too much of all of this?
2 comments:
Holy S**t!! At first I thought it was a joke...hell yes this bothers me! Thanks for putting it out there and letting people know. It's downright creepy!
I too thought you were just reminiscing about past times. I like the fact that children are going to be taught languages that truly matter in this day and age but thats about it. Oh dear - so children are being gathered off the streets to serve a government purpose. We have enough narcissists in the world and now we are going to create more.
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