Homeland Security high school coming to Delaware
Categories: Teens & tweens, In the news, Education
In a move reminiscent of the Hitler-Jugend, planning is underway for the Delaware Academy for Public Safety and Security, a charter high school in Wilmington that will take as many as six hundred inner-city youths and train them to become part of the Homeland Security forces and take part in the war-on-whatever.Students will be called cadets, will wear uniforms, and will follow courses of study in special weapons and tactics, prison guarding, and professional demolition, among others. The languages taught in the school will include Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. Physical training will be a big part, with daily after-school exercise programs already planned.
Spearheading the project is attorney, former Marine hand to hand combat expert, and Olympic Judo coach Thomas Little. Little also spent more than a decade on the African continent training urban youth. Maybe this will turn out to be the best thing since sliced bread, but I'm not convinced. It just seems a little too familiar.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
the goddess anna 5-05-2008 @ 5:13PM
It somewhat saddens me that Wilmington is becoming more and more of a urban city - I mean, this is Delaware, and most of the state is quite modestly-paced. Of course, most of us from below the canal consider everything above the canal to be southern Pennsylvania, so I shouldn't be surprised.
What a great idea for a school. Get these kids off the streets and channel that energy into something functional and positive. How awesome is it that they'll be teaching Arabic, Chinese, and Russian (and hopefully Farsi)! Just to let y'all know, the first two are catagory 4 languages, the second two cat 3, which means they're challanging to learn. They are very important languages to learn, and honestly, the other skills they're learning are valuble too.
I wish I had learned about demolition, hand-to-hand combat, and special weapons in high school! These kids are going to graduate knowing information that can bring very good money in the real world, something I sure as heck didn't get when I graduated from my high school (which is a very good Delaware school, btw).
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the goddess anna 5-05-2008 @ 5:19PM
Btw, what's up with the redo? It's like a teenager's myspace page, only less easy to navigate. I can't seem to read the comments either.
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the goddess anna 5-05-2008 @ 5:21PM
Nevermind, I can see the comments now. If only the comment form would remember my info (the box is checked)...
Patricia 5-05-2008 @ 6:29PM
Has anyone read the book 1984 by Orwell. This just sounds creepy to me. Kids aren't spies or police.
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sweetchuckd 5-05-2008 @ 8:13PM
Aren't student already exposed to firearms, hand to hand combat, enforced dress code, and prison-like conditions in high school already? The only thing that will separate this school from others is that they are guaranteed Phys. Ed. won't get cut form the budget.
Check out http://detentionslip.org for all the problems and crazy headlines from public education.
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Bianca 5-05-2008 @ 10:08PM
I wish I was still in high school, I would beg them to let me in.
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Meagan 5-06-2008 @ 12:52AM
Hey, at least they're teaching them something. Better brainwashed than brain-empty.
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Mihir 5-06-2008 @ 11:07AM
seriously?? the hitler jugend? at best, this comparison is laughable. at worst, it shows paranoia.
hitler youth: indoctrinated in anti-semitism
this high school: learn skills that can actually pay really well in the working world (professional demolition, chinese and arabic translators). i'm hoping for farsi as well.
hitler youth: attendees seen as future "Aryan supermen"
this high school: attendees seen as kids from troubled neighborhoods getting another chance
hitler youth: mandatory even if parents opposed
this high school: voluntary
why don't you take a couple deep breaths or count to ten before equating something you disagree with to Nazis?
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Derek 5-07-2008 @ 9:10AM
Wow... what a horrible comparison. Just Wow... the absolute ignorance is astounding.
Not only have Military schools been around since this country took its first breath, but to compare it to practices within the Third Reich.
Well you've done a good job at riling me up? Was that your goal?
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Mel 5-07-2008 @ 1:47PM
Agreed. Only on ParentDish do the writers get hysterical over lip gloss and a military academy.