19.6.05

No Child Left Behind the Front Lines

It seems a little-known provision of the No Child Left Behind Act, which was supposed to help poorer children to achieve greater academic success, actually requires the schools receiving aid to give the military access to the personal information of their students, so that they can be better recruited to die on the battlefields of oil.

Folly is quite pleased to see that, for a few pieces of silver, the nation's schools are willing to sell out their charges. It gives the children a good example to follow, knowing that everything can be bought and sold, especially life.