Feds Indoctrinating K-12 Kids as Census Takers
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Editor's Note: That noise you hear is my stomach turning.
wsj.com
* U.S. NEWS
* NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Census Turns to Kids for Help
In Immigrant Neighborhoods, a Way to Reach Adults Who Don't Speak English
By MIRIAM JORDAN
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting...kids.
Seeking to ensure strong participation in the decennial population count...the bureau has decided children are key.
The goal of the school program is to reach 56 million students at 118,000 public/private schools [K-12]. Scholastic Inc....worked with the bureau to develop material that could be integrated into math/social studies. Census lesson plans...are meant to help students develop map literacy, graphing and reading skills.
Sorry, but they're behind the times in LA. Here on the Gold Coast of Maine, kids as young as K-3 were questioned extensively on their parents, family structure, and incomes back when my son was in kindergarten (some 18 years ago).
Being so young, they naturally thought nothing of the questions, but accepted them as "okay," because it was teachers who were quizzing them.
Let's just say I was "not amused" when I found out about the Q&A sessions.
There was also an article several years ago (no link for the story) about teachers asking kids about the types of guns/weapons parents had in the house and how they were stored.
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Wasn't this one of the "threats" of communist Russia during the Cold War? That the gov't would use children to rat out parents?