September 19, 2007
No Child Left Behind --- Hugo Chavez style!
Comrade Chavez thrills the crowd with a salute!
After shutting down opposition media outlets and nationalizing huge sectors of his nation’s economy, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has decided to turn his attention to educational reform. His recipe? “Readin,’ writin,’ and revolution”
“A new curriculum will be phased in during this school year, and new textbooks are being developed to help educate "the new citizen," added Chavez's brother and education minister Adan Chavez in their televised ceremony on the first day of classes.
Just what the curriculum will include and how it will be applied to all Venezuelan schools and universities remains unclear.
But one college-level syllabus obtained by The Associated Press shows some premedical students already have a recommended reading list including Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" and Fidel Castro's speeches….”
---The Associated Press
This is exactly what every kid needs to succeed in the twenty-first century---indoctrination in a nineteenth-century political/economic theory that failed on every continent during the twentieth one. Computers? Bah! Market economics? No way! Those subjects are pure bourgeois devilry designed to trick the masses. What a kid needs in 2007 is to brush up on his Marx and Engels.
The situation in Venezuela would be more chuckle-worthy if it weren’t for the fact that Hugo Chavez takes this Marxism nonsense seriously. The citizens of Venezuela are understandably concerned. Hurricane Hugo, like the Reds of yore, has announced that he won’t let the technicalities of free speech stand in his way:
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some Venezuelans fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
All Venezuelan schools, both public and private, must submit to state inspectors enforcing the new educational system. Those that refuse will be closed and nationalized, Chavez said.
--Associated Press
