Bob,
The thing is, I suspect that the public schools where this is happening are
not located in affluent upper middle class school districts where the
residents are predominantly white and wealthy. It's happening in districts
where residents have lower incomes, where many are people of color, where
the population is diverse religiously with several Muslim families. I
attended an urban high school with a large minority student population. It
was a very long time ago so things were gentler than they are now but
believe me, it was run like a police state. Some of us academically oriented
white students were treated a bit better than everyone else, after my
freshman and sophmore years, after we were all sorted out. But even so, the
atmosphere in my school was totally different from that in the schools in
what were, at the time, considered the better neighborhoods like Forest
Hills, Queens. Perhaps the students were also treated very differently on
the upper west side. I don't know. But I do know the children in high
income, high achieving schools aren't going to be interrogated like
criminals.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Why Are K-12 School Leaders Being Trained in
Coercive Interrogation Techniques?
Hi all,
Well, I'm torn between two responses here:
1. How sad that kids in school are being treated like common criminals.
2. It figures.
Notice how much the government of the US Empire has in common with that of
the former Soviet Union?
Now that is truly sad. IT's bad enough that we have police forces using the
kind of interrogation that yields high percentages of false confessions. Now
it is being used on our young studenvts. After going through that process,
how is that student likely to react. Is he or she more likely to:
1. get involved in political affairs in an effort to change things for the
better by means of voting and organizing?
2. Sulk away in disgust?
Or 3. Consider joining a radical group that may or may not act out in
violent frustration?
Seems those who run this empire had best take a good look in the mirror lest
they find themselves in the position of soviet leaders at the end of 1989.
Bob Hachey
