California schools are turning into government indoctrination centers http://t.co/9PAuG5nMSj #tcot
— slone (@slone) June 28, 2013
◼ CA Public Schools Spending $990,000 To Train Kids To Sell Obamacare - Mr. Conservative
One of the creepiest things about totalitarian socialist regimes is that they specifically target children to be their propaganda arms. That is, they don’t sell their ideas to the parents, they sell them to the kids, who then police their parents. Now, California is sending money to schools to indoctrinate children into being spokesmen for ObamaCare. Children are the perfect spokesmen, of course, since they’re blind to such problems as corruption, runaway costs, and declining quality of care.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (“LAUSD”) is receiving a $990,000 grant from the state of California (which is deeply in debt) to train teens to sell ObamaCare to their families. This money is just a part of the $37 million California is spending to try to get people to cooperate with ObamaCare, despite its many and obvious problems....
In addition to the money being spent directly on turning our children into mouthpieces for the government, LAUSD will also use its staff (whose salaries come from taxpayers) to call family homes, make in-school presentations, and generally shill for ObamaCare.
◼ CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS TO TRAIN KIDS TO SELL OBAMACARE - Loren Heal/Human Evvents
"Teens are part of a 'pilot' program to test whether young people can be trained as messengers to deliver outreach and limited education to family and friends in and around their homes," said Gayle Pollard-Terry, a LAUSD spokesman, in an email. "Teens will be educating adults that they already know (e.g., family or friends) and not other adults."
Grant recipients like LAUSD will be held accountable by the state for fulfilling their promised activities for outreach, said Larry Hicks, another LAUSD spokesman.
"At a minimum, grantees will be required to submit to Covered California monthly, quarterly, and annual reports on their activities and progress towards agreed upon outcomes. If project benchmarks are not met, grantees may be required to submit additional ad hoc reports upon Covered California's request. Grantees will also be required to report any proposed adjustments to their approved outreach and education plan using the information management system... Additionally, field monitors will be assigned to grantees to verify their progress," Hughes said.
◼ Disturbing comparisons with using children and government education facilities to deliver "government-preferred messaging" in the past and in other societies today instantly spring to mind. And so do the questions. - Ethel C. Fenig/American Thinker
If the parents disagree with Obamacare and their children's message will the children then be compelled to report them to the "field monitors...assigned to grantees to verify their progress"?
What if a parent hangs up on an intrusive government caller or worse not so politely, or even politely, argues with the "outreach" drone?" Can parents protest the "use of students to push government-preferred messaging"? If so, will the parentsr be compelled to attend parent-school meetings and labelled unfit and abusive?
And what will happen to the students if they mock their assignment of "educating adults they already know", or educate their trainers on the perils of Obamacare, or refuse "to be trained as messengers" or even just don't do their "homework" as students are wont to do? What if kids fail at "educating adults they already know"? All of these outcomes happen every day in homes and schools across America over minor issues. Will the students be shamed and punished by teachers and/or the school administration for their failure to do the assignment? Will the other kids make fun of them?
Perhaps even in California some teachers or administrators will have doubts about violating the basic education principles of a free society which prohibit political advocacy of only one viewpoint. If they voice their concerns about this misuse of the schools or if they too express concerns about Obamacare will they be fired and sent to special in service workshops or re education camps, joining protesting parents and students? What will happen to their children, their families?