There's a shocking new report out about the abuse of students in special-education schools.
Congressional investigators have apparently uncovered widespread mistreatment in public special-needs education facilities.
According to Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., "special-needs children are subjected to the policies of seclusion and policies of restraint that have turned out to be lethal in a number of circumstances. Some of the most disturbing reports concerned the use of seclusion rooms. Experts have long recommended that children should only be isolated when they pose an immediate threat to themselves or others.
"This hearing will show us is that, in fact, every year in schools in the United States hundreds and hundreds of children are the victims of abuse, and in some cases I would say almost torture."
Now let's calm down for a moment and think about this.
Who controls the public schools in America?
That's right. The National Education Association, which also happens to control the Democratic Party and the unconstitutional Department of Education. Its affiliates control most of the government schools throughout the country.
Again, these are government schools. So why, you might ask, is the government shocked, shocked, I tell you to learn about abuses of this kind in government schools? And who does the government complain to when it learns about these abuses being perpetrated by government employees?
The government complains to you and me.
And what is the government's solution? More government control – especially central government control. Because we all know that bureaucrats in Washington love your children more than their parents and the local rubes who actually work with them.
That's what it's always about – control, power, more money to spend, more people to hire.
This is what motivates people like Miller and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
They don't believe anyone is capable of making a good decision without their direction and supervision.
The arrogance is palpable.
Perhaps they are now running out of private businesses to run, so they will turn their attention to government institutions to micromanage and run in absentia from the District of Criminals.
It's torture, Miller exclaims – or almost.
That reminds me of something. Isn't waterboarding also almost torture? And what did the government do about that – or pretend to do anyway? They closed down Guantanamo Bay, didn't they? At least they promised to close it down – maybe, some day, if we can find another place or another country to take in the Boy Scouts currently residing there.
So how about the same solution for these government-run torture schools?
Shouldn't we just close them down, too?
In fact, in light of this shocking report, shouldn't we just close down all government schools?
I would suggest to you far more damage is being done in the name of public education in U.S. schools than is being done in Gitmo.
The answer is not more federal government control over the local schools. It's less. Not only should the federal government be disengaged from schooling, so should local and state government. Do you want to solve the budget deficit? Get government out of schooling, where it has no business.
If children were being tortured in private schools, the answer would be obvious: Parents would remove their children from them and educate them at home or at other private schools. But how dare Miller and company suggest the answer to government torture of students in government schools is more government?
Come to think of it, maybe the answer is transferring those Gitmo prisoners to these rogue special education schools.