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Exclusive - Indoctrination 101: Duncan Approves of Schools Teaching Protest
On Tuesday, EAGnews.org brought you footage of Black Star Project community organizer Phillip Jackson teaching students in Chicago Public Schools' Jones College Prep the finer points of non-violent protesting--and positioning the students to achieve a particular result.
On Wednesday, we brought you a shocking interview with the dean of the school, Grace Moody, who explained that students should be taught how to protest. She reasoned that with all their "teenage angst," students are going to protest something, so they might as well be taught how to protest effectively.
Moody also explained how Jones' "Social Justice Week" was the result of a botched "Gender Bender Day" earlier in the year.
Today, we bring you U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's opinions on the matter.
See the EXCLUSIVE video interview here.
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Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education speaking in NYC:
EAGnews.org Producer: I wanted to get your comments on the introduction of non-violent protest training activism in the schools with the children, specifically taking children to protests and advocating for their own change in the educational system.
This kind of thing started after I graduated from Lane Tech and moved out of the city, evidently.
Arne Duncan: Thank you--that’s a great question. I think whether it’s, you know, children in elementary school, middle school, or high school, or college, getting our students engaged in the civic life of our country is hugely important. So getting young people engaged--protest being a part of it--but creating clubs, participating in service, giving back--not just being recipients of service but being the givers of service...The more our young people are actively engaged, I think the more we’re going to have a strong and vibrant democracy. And so, I think, having young people at the earliest ages doing things that are somehow non-traditional, I’m a big supporter of.
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