High School Blackwater wannabes?

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School's homeland security studies get noticed

Call it vocational education for the 9/11 generation.

The nation's first comprehensive high school homeland security program, a three-year course to help kids land jobs in the growing anti-terrorism industry, is in its infancy in Maryland. But it's recently been attracting the attention of educators and school districts from as far away as California and Florida.

The program, started at Maryland's Joppatowne High School with 61 sophomores, provides "an opportunity for kids to see relevance to being in school," says Frank Mezzanotte of the Harford (Md.) County Public Schools. "It gives kids additional options."

Students have toured a Coast Guard command center, visited a county detection center, practiced emergency response in a fictional town called "Joppaville" and heard an Iraqi-born speaker explain cultural differences between Americans and Middle Easterners.

"We're trying to set high expectations," says student Megan Bell, 15. "We don't want to be known as just the school with the good football team. Now we have homeland security."

Other school districts are taking notice. Mezzanotte says he's been contacted by individual schools and education departments in more than a half-dozen states.

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Some question whether the program will teach students to be open-minded about the government's national security policies, given its goal of getting kids jobs with defense and homeland security contractors and the military. The liberal magazine Mother Jones dubbed Joppatowne "the academy of military-industrial-complex studies."

Jonathan Zimmerman, a New York University history of education professor, says "the devil lies in whether this is going to be a school for education or indoctrination."

Other educators applaud the school for taking steps to prepare kids for one of the nation's expanding job markets and for connecting what they learn in school to what's happening in the real world.

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[Ganja Ninja]

1. Future Losers of America!

Majoring in Homeland Security and minoring in fascism.

With any luck Blackwater and The Department of "Homeland Security" will go the way of the Dodo in 2009.

[LongTomH]

2. Scary! Really, really scary!

Really scarrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :scared: :scared: :scared:

I always thought some of the bullies I encountered in high school and college would make good storm troopers. Want to take any bets on what kind of kids will enroll in this curriculum? :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[Canuckistanian]

3. Oh, Great

Another generation of kids who can't spell or do math - but they'll be 'fightin' terrists' for big bucks.

As evidenced by the quote, "We don't want to be known as just the school with the good football team. Now we have homeland security."

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. FFA program.

Future Fascists of America.

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5. Comment on the Internet

Bouchard

Germany during WWII also had “,homeland security,” taught in schools. It was called the Hitler Youth program.

[Javaman]

6. america's future: info-tainment and crooked paramilitary forces. nt

[EnviroBat]

7. Hitlers Nazi youth program all over again...

Gotta love the little brown-shirts, or brown-shits as I will refer to them...

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8. Job security?

Homeland Security Specialist Degree Program

Since 9-11 all of us have realized that our Homeland is vulnerability to terrorism and we want to know what we can do to prepare ourselves from any future security threats. The Homeland Security Specialist program prepares you for a career as trained safety and security workers in businesses, airports, home building associations, stadiums, public safety, work as security police officers, FBI, Secret Service,S tate Police Officers, Drug Enforcement Officer, US Marshall's, Special Agents, Customs Investigators, and Diplomatic Security and Homeland Security Special Agents.

[Didereaux]

9. revamped high school ROTC, same thugs, different name

[Parche]

10. Oh Puke

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

I am so tired of 'Terra' being shoved on America by these right wingers................:grr: :grr: :hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. Star Search, only for bu$h cronies

Weed out the thinkers and fast track the Zealous Loyal types into positions right outta HS.