Latest News and Comment from Education

Friday, February 24, 2012

GATEECA, The Department of Eugenics, and Barack Obama’s Racism To the Top – Part I « Living Behind the Gates

GATEECA, The Department of Eugenics, and Barack Obama’s Racism To the Top – Part I « Living Behind the Gates:

GATEECA, The Department of Eugenics, and Barack Obama’s Racism To the Top – Part I

“As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression…It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become victims of the darkness.” ~ Justice William O. Douglas

“Historically, eugenics has been used as a justification for coercive state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, such as forced sterilization of persons who appear to have – or are claimed to have – genetic defects, the killing of the institutionalized and, in some cases, outright


GATEECA – Part 2

Vincent: [narrating] “I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science.” ~ Gattaca, IMDb

Question: Are all lives really equal and do they all require measurement to determine their value?


GATEECA – Part 3

Human Farming

Racism to the Top – Human Farming in Rahm Emanuel’s Mayoral controlled Chicago:

The Ed Show – Education for the Fittest

The rest were dispensable, born to be a burden to the rest.


GATEECA – Part 4

Question: Is all this talk of Eugenics limited to my paranoia or to conspiracy theorists? Am I alone in connecting education and Eugenics in the modern era of technology?

Answer: In a 2011 piece, Eugenic Legacies Still Influence Education by David Cohen, he writes:

“One of the most important guiding principles in education is in loco parentis – we are morally and legally obliged to act “in place of the parent” when children are in our care. That principle is the main reason for the sharply negative and visceral reaction I had when I read about John F. Kennedy High School using color-coded identification cards based on student test scores, and then a later article describing a similar program at Cypress High School (both in Orange County, California). According to the Orange County Register, the different cards also led to different