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5-year-old Dennis Rivera was handcuffed and taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation after throwing a temper-tantrum in his New York kindergarten class. Control starts very early. Haven’t they also been discussing giving tasers to teachers? This is just a really bad combination on top of an already-terrible situation. 

Police and school officials are investigating a mother’s allegations that her 5-year-old son was handcuffed and taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after throwing a temper tantrum in his Queens kindergarten.

Jasmina Vasquez tells the Daily News her son, Dennis Rivera, was “scared to death” by the Jan. 17 incident at PS 81. Link (via SOTT)

It just seems that from drugs to the curriculum, they don’t want anyone to be able to exist in any state apart from the system of control. They don’t want people to think or dream. Even the Rockefeller’s General Education Board admitted this:

In our dreams…people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple…we will organize children…and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

I believe Woodrow Wilson put it best:

We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Dennis Rivera will probably not resist authority too much in the future. This event will stay in his mind for a long time to come.