Support the “No Child Left Behind From War Act of 2008″

Children are our greatest resource.

Education is our most valuable tool.

The fact that we are not using our greatest resource and most valuable tool to win the Global War on Terrorism is yet more proof that we, as a nation, are a bunch of weak-willed Gumbies.

That is why I hereby propose the “No Child Left Behind From War Act of 2008.”

The U.S. government currently has two programs that are in dire need of modification – the No Child Left Behind Act, and the GI Bill. If these programs are not fixed, quickly and sternly, America will lose this current Global War of Civilizations. This is not acceptable at any cost.

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain has made an astute point in regards to modernizing the current GI Bill – If the U.S. starts offering too much education to veterans, no one will want to be a soldier anymore. McCain envisions a new GI Bill where troops will be forced to “earn” their education dollars by serving longer and longer stints in the military.

“It is important to do that because, otherwise, we will encourage more people to leave the military after they have completed one enlistment,” McCain said.

As for No Child Left Behind, one of its biggest drawbacks has been the fact that it has basically weeded out children that simply are undeserving of an education, as many children have either dropped out or been forced out of schools due to poor grades.

“We Americans can’t afford to have a third or more of our kids not getting through high school — how can we have this?” Colin Powell recently said. “Some places have a 70 percent dropout rate. We can’t have this.”

Mr. Powell’s assessment is absolutely correct. Having such a high dropout rate – and not using it as a way to fight terrorists – is a crime of the highest order and a national shame.

The “No Child Left Behind From War Act of 2008″ will basically splice the NCLB and the GI Bill together, in a way that will both improve education for veterans, while boosting competition in the nation’s schools. And it will do this while bolstering the armed services, and saving billions of dollars in taxpayer money.

Here, in layperson’s terms, is how the “No Child Left Behind From War Act of 2008″ will work:

- All American children will receive a free education from the U.S. government until the age of eight (8) or through third (3rd) grade.

- Children who finish third grade with a grade-point average of less that 4.0 will be taken out of school, and inducted into the military.

What the No Child Left Behind From War Act of 2008 will accomplish:

1) It insures that the U.S. military will have a fresh, eager, young batch of recruits every year to help combat the global swarm of terrorism.

2) It insures that all U.S. schools will meet the strict requirements necessary to continue operation. Within four years, as only children with perfect GPAs will be allowed to be educated, more and more schools can be combined, with the unused schools being made into barracks for the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Kid Corps.”

Then, for each year of service to his country, the child will receive three months of government-sponsored education. This educational benefit can be accrued for up to 40 years.

For example: An 8-year-old finishes third grade with a GPA of 3.8. As a failure, the child is then transfered from the school to the “Kids Corps” division of the U.S. military. After just 40 years of service, that child can then retire from the military at age 48 and go back to school, for a full 10 years. The end result is that underachieving 8-year-old will, 50 years later, be a 58-year-old high-school graduate that has served 10 enlistments fighting terrorists.

Additional Benefits:

1) In keeping with the success of faith-based programs, military educational benefits can only be used at such quality schools as Bob Jones University, Oral Roberts University, Brigham Young University, Steve’s School of Scientology, etc. This will guarantee that our soldier/students will receive wholesome educations following their decades of duty, thus easing them back into society, ready for a career in the service industry.

2) Those already in the military will receive no additional educational benefits, and in fact have their current benefits taken away. This will help keep the nation’s military strong, as experienced soldiers will have little recourse but to continue re-enlisting until they retire, or are killed in service to their country. This will also save an immense amount of tax payer money.

3) When the act is made into law, children over the age of eight will be forced to take a test. Failure of this test will mean the students, regardless of age, will be transfered to the “Kid Corps.”

4) Should a child ever see his or her GPA drop below 4.0, they will be immediately transferred to the “Kid Corps,” again leaving our grade schools and high schools filled with only the best of the best.

The United States is a nation at war. And this is no normal war, it is an indefinable war of civilizations against an enemy that’s willing to use any advantage it can to destroy us all and feast on our entrails while we’re still alive. They have the know-how and the will. The only question is when they will strike. When will these bloodthirsty terrorists decide to band together as one and force us all into a lifetime of slavery and death? This is a question we just don’t have time to answer, educational needs be damned.

That is why the time is now for the “No Child Left Behind From War Act of 2008.” NCLBFWA2008 will take our nation’s greatest resources and tools, combine them, and create an unbeatable fighting machine of children, adults and the elderly. And when the time comes for those that served to be rewarded, they will receive the education they deserve and that we can afford.

–WKW

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