From Gingrich, an Unconventional View of Education

[proud2BlibKansan]

Newt Gingrich has some unconventional ideas about education reform. He wants every state to open a work-study college where students work 20 hours a week during the school year and full-time in the summer and then graduate debt-free.

In poverty stricken K-12 districts, Mr. Gingrich said that schools should enlist students as young as 9 to14 to mop hallways and bathrooms, and pay them a wage. Currently child-labor laws and unions keep poor students from bootstrapping their way into middle class, Mr. Gingrich said.

“This is something that no liberal wants to deal with,” he told an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard on Friday, according to Politico.

“You say to somebody, you shouldn’t go to work before you’re what, 14, 16 years of age, fine,” Mr. Gingrich said. “You’re totally poor. You’re in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. I’ve tried for years to have a very simple model. Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising.”

more . . . http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/from-gingrich-an-unconventional-view-of-education/?src=tp

[peacebird]

1. Bringing back child labor, really? He wants nine years to be janitors in their schools?

The Repukes are going to bring back poor houses, indentured servitude, and debtors prisons next

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. They do this in Japan

The kids clean the schools and cook the lunches.

[tabatha]

2. Crappy broad brushing.

"This is something that no liberal wants to deal with"

If Gingrich is elected, and beats Obama, it will be done on the basis of lies.

[MichiganVote]

3. Because he spends so much time among poor, urban youth and their families

Naturally he's an expert on education too.

:eyes:

[Yavin4]

4. Is This Satire?

Someone tell me that this is satire.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Nope. Sorry. It's true.

[lob1]

7. And Newt is supposedly the smart one.

[Capitalocracy]

8. That's right, Gingrich wants to enslave your children.

Call it what it is.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Bridge Into The New Gilded Age should be his campaign slogan

[GreydeeThos]

10. Gingrich advocates training kids in public school to be underclass servants to the 1%

Show the little brats their lot in life is to be a below minimum wage laborer tending to the undesirable tasks for the rich folk.

[The Genealogist]

11. You always know when the word bootstrap (or form of it) comes up

that something vile is attached to it. Gingrich has no intention of helping anyone in "the process of rising" except the rich. He wants a cheap source of labor, the burden put on the backs of CHILDREN, and in the process gets to vilify unions and labor laws. I am sure his supporters are cheering this on, most of them knowing that it won't be their children doing the work.