So for me and my family, we are making the choice to be a part of the greater system, hoping to see a trend of more families with the time and means to invest in public schools actually doing so — because if we don’t take the time to make quality public education a possibility for all children, who will?

It has been 150+ years since the appearance of the first compulsory schooling laws, and the government daycare enslavement camps are more destructive and violent than ever. But we owe it to the political beneficiaries of the system to keep funding their futures and their totalitarian central planning devices?

It’s time for a change: Schools should remain open until 5 or 6 p.m. The result would be better-educated students and less-stressed parents.

After all, says Orszag, the children aren’t tasked enough with their minuscule 7-hour school day. Thanks to Travis Holte for the link.

Despite the unruly behavior on the part of these boys, this is what boys – and generally, kids – do at that age. Adolescent behavior, carried out by, yes, adolescents, is deemed criminal behavior by the police state-prison-government school complex, even when no one is hurt from the incident.

See my article on children as prisoners of the state, and the great film, “The War on Kids.”

The mother is “angry with everybody” over this turn of events particularly since she specifically signed a document indicating that medical treatment must never be administered to her daughter without her consent.

Ms. Kinney’s daughter developed a rash all over her body as a result of the poison forcibly injected into her body and had to miss several days of school as a result.

Detroit school officials had absolutely nothing meaningful to say in response. Your public-schooled children are prisoners of the state.

See the video here.

The school district does have a mandatory uniform for the middle school students. The school handbook devotes a section to proper attire that states shoes, boots and sneakers with matching-colored laces are permitted. It also says if clothing disrupts learning, the administration has the right to set rules about questionable attire.

If a student does not comply, discipline can range from a reminder sent home to parents on the first offense to possible detention or suspensions at the principal’s discretion for repeated offenses.

Virtual charter schools allow students in grades kindergarten through 12 to take classes at home with a computer and the help of a parent or guardian serving as a “learning coach.”

Students interact with a teacher through email, telephone and interactive software, including video conferencing.

Two schools in the state opened last year — one based in Grand Rapids with about 800 students and the other in Okemos with more than 500 students.

Educators, including the state Board of Education, have asked that lawmakers not allow more of the schools to open until several years of academic data is accumulated to determine if the schools are effective.

Cyber learning means that the parent makes the decision about what the child does “at school” and the child has flexibility in determining what he wants to learn and/or not learn. Individuality and creativity is not a part of the plan. Thanks to James Nellis for the link.

In 95 minutes, THE WAR ON KIDS exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears. Children are subjected to endure prison-like security, arbitrary punishments, and pharmacological abuse through the forced prescription of dangerous drugs. Even with these measures, schools not only fail to educate students, but the drive to teach has become secondary to the need to control children. Not only do school fall short of their mission to educate, but they erode the country’s democratic foundation and often resemble prisons.

School children are interviewed as are high school teachers and administrators, and prison security guards, plus renowned educators and authors including:

Henry Giroux: Author of Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture’s War on Children

Mike A. Males: Sociologist, author of Scapegoat Generation

John Gatto: New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year

Judith Browne: Associate Director of the Advancement Project

Dan Losen: The Civil Liberties Project, Harvard University