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2011-03-25 Afghanistan

Karzai Urges Taliban to Stop Burning Schools

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 Something the US should have done early on is to create enormous boarding schools in very defensible areas near larger cities, then require all children, or at least girl children, to be educated there. And to western educational standards.

On graduation, a large number of the best students automatically get jobs with the government and military.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-25 09:41|| 2011-03-25 09:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The Australians tried that with their aborigines, in the U.S. I believe that was tried with some of the Indian tribes. The boarding school thing doesn't seem to work well.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-25 10:14|| 2011-03-25 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Works for Harry Potter.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-03-25 10:58|| 2011-03-25 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The boarding school thing doesn't seem to work well.

Heck, the public school system in America isn't too concerned about creating the model citizen with loyalty to something other than one's color, race, or creed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-25 11:44|| 2011-03-25 11:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Works for Harry Potter.

Harry Potter went voluntarily to a place he considered much better than the alternative, Redneck Jim. Very different than being kidnapped by the conquering unbelievers, who thus flout God's intent and/or The Way Things Ought To Be.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-25 18:32|| 2011-03-25 18:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes TW, exactly what I meant. WE (USA) could offer a really better place to learn, Until the assholes Bomb it.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-03-25 20:14|| 2011-03-25 20:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Very good point, Redneck Jim -- I hadn't thought of it in that way. Most Afghans seem keen to get their children educated, to provide them with opportunities for a better future. Positioned in that way, it would work as well as East Point, for which young men literally walked barefoot through the snow to get to.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-25 23:43|| 2011-03-25 23:43|| Front Page Top

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