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The War on Kids (2009)

submitted by geo321

1 decade 2 years 3 months 3 weeks ago

THE WAR ON KIDS is a 95 minute documentary that shows how American public schools continue to become more dangerously authoritarian. In addition to failing in their mission to educate effectively, they erode the country's democratic foundation and often resemble prisons. School children are interviewed as are high school teachers and administrators, as well as 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 Rights Project, Harvard University
Dr. Peter Breggin: author, TOXIC PSYCHIATRY, TALKING BACK TO PROZAC

Music in the film is performed by The Chumps, Tommy Gardner, John S. Hall, and Laura Mayer with Scott Grinthal.

THE WAR ON KIDS is directed by Cevin Soling who won the NYIIFVF award for "best educational film" in 2009. His documentary, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS won NYIIFVF's best experimental feature film. -YT

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After about an hour, when the video starts moving from actual examples of real-life schools and educators to downright slandering school as an institution, is when it loses me. They're starting making stuff up off the top of their heads, working themselves up into a fervor of just hateful misinformation and taking very real problems to an absurd extreme, which only works against the point they're trying to make. I mean, comparing schools to concentration camps? Really?

The thing that one guy said about Shakespeare also made me facepalm hard. If you're comparing the level of education back then with today, there's no question that children learn infinitely more now, that the level of general knowledge in every area has increased dramatically. Shakespeare might have been an outlier in english writing to which an average to below average student of today can't measure up, but I would wager he would come up short in just about every other area of expertise against that same student. I'm also sure there are not just the same percentile of people living today who're as naturally gifted with writing prose as Shakespeare, but a much higher number of those gifted people who're better able to manifest that gift into something tangible thanks to the better schooling system of today.

Moving this video to geo321's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools

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