JROTC-lite
Bookworm on Oct 20 2008 at 8:59 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
As you know, San Francisco has been engaged in all-out warfare against it’s Junior ROTC program. The latest effort to wipe out the program is to offer a “first aid class” (yes, really), to help those kids who want to do something meaningful with their lives. In a story deeply interlaced with local politics and upcoming elections, we learn about the JROTC-lite being cooked up. Please note the language I’ve highlighted, since it has the smell of “community organizing” hanging about it:
A majority of San Francisco school board members today pitched a replacement for the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, calling for an emergency response training course that would offer leadership training for the district’s students without the military overtones.
The proposal comes two years after the board voted to phase out JROTC and seven months before the program’s scheduled elimination in June.
The new program, which will be presented as a resolution before the full school board Tuesday, would require the district to create a high school leadership course called Student Emergency Response Volunteers (SERV) and include first aid training and emergency response skills.
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Students would learn important life skills and community service opportunities while exposing them to careers in law enforcement or emergency medicine, said Darin Ow-Wing, executive director of Community Educational Services, who brought the idea to board members.
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That alternative leadership program is currently being piloted in two high schools and includes a 9th grade ethnic studies course as the first in a four-year series of classes. The course was a last-minute selection in June to satisfy the school board’s demand for an alternative program, but few students have been attracted to it.
Maybe my antennae are just on unreasonably high alert. However, when I hear about a San Francisco school program, “without military overtones,” that supposedly teaches kids first aid and respect for firefighters, but in fact makes them learn ethnic studies and “community service,” all I can think of is ACORN.
What say you?
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Hi Book – let me answer that with a question.
Why is it that with every Democrat program and politician, we are left to dig through layers and layers of obfuscation to try and figure out what the real motive or who the real person is? With Republicans, it’s all out there on the table for the MSM dogs to savage. Not so with the other side – ever!
I say the kids currently in the JROTC program should load their weapons and physically take over the School Board at the earliest chance. Then I would ask the board members to explain how first aid training will rescue them.
Those San Francisco “pacifists” would never object to indoctrinating schoolkids in the wonderfulness of Che Guevara’s thuggish war against liberty.
Sounds like training for the Peace Corps. It’s about time.
Helen,
Ethnic studies has nothing whatsoever to do with community service or emergency response skills. Unless it is believed that only ethnic minorities need help. The Peace Corps doesn’t need recruiting help for young idealists; they need skilled labor and medical professionals. Unfortunately their politics keeps getting in the way, which is why we have Doctors without Borders.
In any case, they are stripping out one of the key portions of the JROTC program – the physical fitness credit. The program is aimed at developing leadership but also promoting physical fitness and health. The proposed program would replace a different part of the curriculum. That is a problem; JROTC just subbed in place of PE and didn’t take away from humanities, sciences, or mathematics.
And the follow on, of course, is what department would handle the course outline and how do you select instructors?
There are a lot of problems that aren’t apparent; questions are in order.
SSG Dave – “It isn’t apples and apples; it isn’t even apples and oranges. It’s apples and B2 bombers.”
>>Sounds like training for the Peace Corps. It’s about time.>>
How so?
Peace Corp…what do they _do_? what do they _need _ to learn? Where would you send them? I remember when the Peace Corp started…as I recall, the first requirement was usually helping villagers find a source of clean water that was closer than the nearest river, which was often a long walk away(no doubt due to problems with annual flooding and other dangers brought on by animals needing water). What that usually meant was ditch digging. Think they’ll teach that? or how to build the roads so that they can get new bandages and medicines when the ones they brought with them run out? Or maybe how to field dress a gazelle? Or smoke it so that the meat would be available for more than 1-2 days in country where there’s no refrigeration?
I have 9 books in the Foxfire series…stories about life in the Appalachians in the early 1900s…. I bet they’d make excellent texts. I doubt it’s what they have in mind…
But the students aren’t enrolled in the Peace Corps. They are enrolled in the JROTC. What’s next, enrolling students in philosophy and teaching them art history? Or how about students paying for swimming classes and being taught horticulture? Brilliant.
Totally off topic, but HOT!!!
http://www.americasright.com/2008/10/berg-obama-dnc-admit-all-allegations.html
It isn’t over yet…legal maneuvers abound, certainly. The comment section raises some interesting questions, but of course, the biggest question of all is… what next?
Helen, Helen, Helen, you are always so predictable it must get boring. Head filled w/the clouds and fog of theory about the way that you want the world to be and denying the reality of what the world is really like. Human nature has never changed and never will. As a result, only a nation that is strong militarily (a good thing) can remain free and rich enough to deploy a Peace Corps (also a good thing). What’s so hard to understand about that?
What say you?
I say that part of the reason why they wanted the draft was because of the competition the US military provided for Leftist indoctrination. If, however, you can produce your own indoctrinated kids and still have them be drafted, then you can not only exclude the US military from college campuses but you can also sabotage the US military from the inside out.
Can you imagine what people would do with San Francisco “community” values if the Democrats were succeeded in re-implementing the draft to make wars harder for America to wage under a Republican President?
If a Democrat called for a war, people would obey. If a Republican called for war, the cells created by the multi-ethnic “studies” people could start something up in the civilian and military spheres.
I also say that the only thing you need to convince Helen that something good is happening is to put the word “Peace” in front of it.
Apropos of utopian pacifistic fantasies, Neo-neocon today posted Kipling’s classic “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”:
“When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
Pacifists can survive only as long as they are protected by people who are not so effete as to refuse to get their hands dirty doing the necessary jobs of survival. As George Orwell wrote, “Good citizens sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” With all due respect, can one be a good citizen if one despises those who guard society?