5th graders taught about the Census in school

[Goldhunter27]

http://www.enterprisenews.com/features/x785863601/Brockton-students-learn-about-the-2010-U-S-Census

This is happening in the town next to me. :mad:


"The event was part of a weeklong effort at the Mary E. Baker School to encourage students to talk to their parents about filling out the census."

[slothman]

How is it bad?
It doesn't talk about whether things like race are bad.

[fisharmor]

How is it bad?


“We could get more hospitals. Then you wouldn’t have to travel all the way across the city if you weren’t near one,” said Richard Middleton, 11, of Brockton....

“The 2010 census will help Brockton receive millions of dollars in federal funds for our schools, hospitals, public works projects, job training, senior centers and emergency services,” she said.

Arianna DePinna, 10, of Brockton thought the census was important because it would help build new schools like the one she is attending.

“It’s important because we might not be here now if it wasn’t for the last one,” she said.

There's the road map to why it's bad... the census is SUPPOSED to be for figuring out how many representatives are needed to represent the people in government.

Instead, it is billed to the kids as a way for the community to even function.

The clear implication is this: if not for the census, government wouldn't know how to effectively plan communities. Santa's sack might be emptied in the wrong places.

Not to mention the fact that they're obviously spending hours indoctrinating children and trying to get them to lean on their parents in true Nazi fashion... and that these same children are going to have to teach themselves to read, or not learn at all.