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their replacements are waiting the young generation for the tree. fruit still school. wonderful feel he should not for art like speak right from head young as a six year old and my three year old son. upright that you're born without prior. life. like. i had an inkling. that he. was like. america has pledged to turn these children into heroes these junior troops include five hundred thousand miners across the united states they're the hope of
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a fearful country they're destined to defy tara the first generation post nine eleven. s i this public school in chicago's south one in five students opted for the army an hour of classes a day five times a week taught by retired service members. i. these youngsters are in year eight they're new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. takes six. of the u.s. army is teaching it more than three thousand public schools. students who opt for
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the army are exempt from physical education. the biggest thing a look at as just make sure your hair does not touch your ears. then facing a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon lots of finger nails right here what is authorized colors. let me see your nails right now hold them up right now tomorrow. if she doubt her nails like this right here she's going to lose points let me see goals come from back so we come from structured environment and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regular teacher is a graduate teaching certificate and then they they start teaching but i don't think they really understand classroom management or demand engine large groups of people
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in different. different ways of doing it like we do this and maybe that's why we can get the kids do push ups but a regular teacher could you know as i want to be you know become more of a better citizen in the country and well i just want to become stronger physically and mentally i was not opposed to. this listen let's face it. just like listen i wasn't interested. this is accomplished this. will go as i would like to say stuff like this it's all about what any question so far. j r o t c program was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. or one but over time its influence waned it was only after nine eleven that president george bush revitalized its image shortly thereafter. the military starts preparing for war in
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afghanistan they need volunteers but there aren't any due to the impending war officially the pentagon calls it a contribution to the development of youth in chicago colonel retired after serving thirty three years in the army supervises junior cadets. program is really about citizenship it's about. teaching young boys and girls high school age you know young men and women about service and you know what they can do to better themselves but i have nothing to do with recruiting so it's a distinct difference and it's a very important point because a lot of people a lot of teachers don't understand that they think that we are and you know we almost get defensive because we have to explain that we're not on a regular basis in chicago the program is widespread the army teaches that one in
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four schools are training more than ten thousand adolescents the authorities accept this militarization of education as especially useful for fighting gangs. for neighborhoods harlem high school another one finger and so south and west ten an era to be the rough ones once again it's what i would call the we give alternative is great after two days for kids to do things a lot of fun and give back to the society the army is a good gang acting as a counterweight to the violent gangs last year three hundred one use under sixteen were shot thirty one died. to protect students the city provide security for their way home guards veterans of iraq and afghanistan. i go for be careful.
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people die every night two thousand and sixteen was the deadliest year in chicago this past decade six hundred dead more than in any other american city shady characters in the street there's a curfew for people under twenty one starting at nine in the evening. district in the city's south. in the morning. ready for school she's been in the sea for four years. kind of excited to. have. i guess legace just.
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a uniform rules. over chaos for childhood shaped by violence. on wednesday students and most of. the three hundred eighty cadets have to wear the uniform one in five students has opted for the army the day starts with a troop inspection. didn't take up you don't you don't have a rank you don't think up close you do not want your mum think over your clothes you carried on your forearm i missed. it and. since september yes man has been leading the cadets she is the boss she inspects the troops. feel like i'm with the army yeah because at school like we're so used
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to like just doing everything maybe halfway and not actually giving it our hundred and when you see like the army videos you're like oh my god like they're so strict they have to do everything in unison whether you're shy or not your chance to step up to any problems so that way for comfortable with yourself and things you are yourself so pretty much gives you that confidence but. that's read again if you let it. run its own see. the army doesn't just teach these students discipline they also learn the history of the armed forces as well as doing civil studies and getting into shape the pentagon provides the pool and is the sole decision maker regards their content.
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what does the army expense of the children it moves to its ideals officially nothing but it's hard to ignore the sergeant's business. it's. this. this all of. the recruiters they leave their carts and these are different for others navy army. marine corps and if it is interested in the military we'll give them the card and they contact the recruiter and the recruiter assist them in joining the military and that's why i said that we really don't. recruit we'll sister if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves it's a win win because at the college level if the kid meets the requirements he or she could get either a for four years scholarship pay four or three or even two and then at the end
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of their college when they're about to graduate then they would be commissioned as an officer in the army air force or navy which actually pays very well if you go to college it's additional way there's no guarantees you get a job when you graduate college. does the school administration approve of these methods how to teach is that america's public schools see the presence of the army in their classrooms nancy wiley headmistress at the hubbard school is pragmatic. c.p.s. is struggling sometimes you know financially so we have to be real careful about our how we promote programs and how we finance programs and share to some program is one of the through the district so we don't take our school money to pay to have them teaches. yes it is which is a nice thing so and they're all agreed they're retired military. officers and they come in. and they give back to the kids so they could pay through to the government
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program this is me so it's nice it's something we don't have to pay for. the program also includes morning and evening activities before and off to school formal training parades military music college god. is creative in how it uses military drills to inspire thousands of american youngsters to become soldiers . here's what people have been saying about rejecting the stay. the only show i go out of my way to talk you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah john oliver of arc to america is going to say we are apparently
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better than the things that some people you've never heard of love redacted tonight the president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. about your sudden passing i phone we just learned. taken your last term. your act right up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest . i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war and i can't was again please tell some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly
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promised to never be like it said one does not need a funeral in the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with this one different speech because there are no other takers. to the claim that mainstream media has met its make. rory fanning a former soldier opposes the system what he saw and experienced made him leave the army and since then he has somewhat to discourage use from joining his former employer. they're. not communicating the full story to young people they ask me call of duty is very popular first sure video game know a lot of kids play and they ask me is the military like call of duty as i call the vast majority of people who die in call of duty civilians they said no. do you hear
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women and children screaming you know when they see their son or daughter child die in front of them call of duty the videogame dell. turned off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off war and a lot of these kids just don't hear the darker side. fanning used to be a special forces soldier on fourteen afghanistan. he tries to convince teachers to let him talk about the reality of war. and i signed up to prevent another terrorist attack by burke virtue of targeting so many innocent people. we are only the creating the conditions for more terrorist attacks. there's an important statistic you know between nine hundred eighty and two thousand and one there are three hundred eighty four suicide bombs around the world only ten percent of those suicide bombs directed at the u.s. and u.s.
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interests since two thousand and one there's been over twenty five hundred suicide bombs around the world with ninety percent aimed at the u.s. and u.s. interests. i'm lucky if i speak to three schools a year because the charity c. program is looked on. generally positive for the teachers you know because it's a positive program don't necessarily want to rock the boat by bringing someone like me and talk to the kids. and i don't fault them for it i mean it's a perk arius work environment for so many teachers unfortunately so it's hasn't been easy the u.s. spends about sixty billion dollars a year on education we spend probably six hundred billion dollars a year on average on the military so it's about ten times more on the military than i took a shot we close fifty public schools here in chicago they said there's no money for the schools so the military is filling in the blanks the j r o t c operates in
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mostly poor districts while statistics on ethnic breakdowns up or hit in fronts they're not in the u.s. the cadets in chicago's j o o t c made up of fifty four percent latino thirty seven percent african-americans and every five people can asians parents came to go through an. evening to school she always helps them. come on only. in. many things. but i don't think i would be able to handle. that some people at. the headache maybe no more face and they feel like that's a way of integrating something in this at least by me. who must implement this on the facebook you seem to. be. you
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know if you look at. the distances. for instance there's only one school in my office you'll be proud. of me. particularly in texas there are more than two hundred jr o.t.c. units in the lone star state after the nine eleven attacks before worth region deployed the most troops and also brought the most foreign back home nearby is the largest american military base fort hood the army and its supporting agencies other regions main employers. this is where the army has set up shooting ranges at schools and he's teaching students how to use guns or five very clear eyed for. every morning an hour before
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class these young fourteen year old texans practice shooting. are the real rifles in their own life and they shoot about five hundred feet between five and six hundred feet a second it's a very powerful. game just. as a saw for the pellet. the hope is when they leave here they can go and teach adults because many adults don't know how to safely handle rifles. especially other kids that have pellet rifle b.b. guns you know they don't a lot of them haven't been to safety classes. pledge allegiance to the high interest rates of america and carry elections and actually gets to be what they. want is if. you are the
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future of america you want to control the country we continue to have fear is that they that you can control. you know that right. you control fear not let a control you because of you at her to that on the ballot your courage going to do what's right whether you're in the classroom and even on the battlefield. you need tell you you need three. increase as once he said like other jobs you'd be like sitting in an office all day or something that you want to do would just get boring after a few years but i know the military will give me a chance to reach out to others and also make me a better person that's why i want to join the military actually already doing a little teary sure botham's life. so when my classmate who was saying. you can't go wrong with the military it's
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a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do. the military's great memory way you know it builds leaders every single day that we care is our country we can control more we can actually embrace and inspire more with that power that's why i think the military is like great things to do and that's why i joined. the military beginning and i saluted the ship off right after graduation. seventeen years of age song. signed up to three years in the army with the option of extending to eighty is a program. makes this possible. still in school. every thursday he meets his trainers who prepare him for military service until he receives his obligatory diploma.
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a presentation at your school on friday. will be out there and it's there to the area like this right in texas there's a high school market is definitely where recruiters want to be because that's where the majority of people want to join in the syria in august if you want to be able to afford them the opportunity to. cover nineteen different high schools in five colleges and i have to work on many. of them have assigned high schools that they should be in you know a least twice weeks james. what you see is probably the biggest asset and as far as recruiting goes you know when we go out to the schools who are looking for. there's no conscription in the u.s. as in one hundred forty six other countries some recruiters have to sell a u.s. army to eighty thousand youths a year two thousand and one law makes this easy schools must submit data on all the students to the pentagon so to can contact them directly at home otherwise funding
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is cut. it's quite a task right now i have i think i have fifty three future soldiers in our program at one point we were up to seventy five. and so it's a challenge you know and especially some of them being younger they you know you have to keep up with them and give them you know to do what they're supposed to but . you know it's it can be challenging. and the fight for their heart starts in primary school every regiment of the fort hood base has set up a partnership with a school. this operation enticements the soldiers spend hundreds of hours every year with these children they read to them go to the school canteen with them and
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when gold make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame and larry go round lifts only the one percent so. we can all middle of the room sick. room for the real news room the world. economic development is all about numbers we're really pleased to report this quarter we are on one hundred six point. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o.
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mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just how a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are the just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society that phone the part of the government tried to do both at nestle maybe. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works this is all capitalism goes hopelessly disastrously wrong. as a colony it's called puerto rico and they overcharge them for stuff and out there
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is a disaster. or there leave them to rot and it's a failure of capitalism it's a failure of politics in washington it's a failure that we saw telling for decades and it's a failure coming to the shores of america. it's taken these children's homes. now it's read them is to take their future. the volcano here could erupt again at any time. most people have a strong choice. live in poverty. which will in a guy. put some a following a different road. it's. the food and soon we. employ that hope for
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pressure that might force r.t. from the united states authorities crack down on this channel despite a senate committee saying presidential election results were unaffected by any outside interference following the investigation into alleged russian meddling president called on some interest to look closely at america's news outlets. spain's constitutional court blocked a catalan parliamentary session where the regional government promised to proclaim independence. and the french president is.
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