In yet another scheme to usurp an ever-expanding role in childrearing, the Obama administration’s top education bureaucrat recently called for government boarding schools. Claiming that there are “just certain kids we should have 24/7,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan also proposed turning government schools across America into “community centers” that would offer students even more “after-school programming.” It is all part of what senior Obama officials refer to as the “cradle-to-career” education agenda.
But what is that agenda, and are government boarding schools really a good idea? Are there really some kids that the government should have 24/7? And what are these “community schools” Duncan speaks of? The education chief himself has given us a good deal of insight into the answers....
