Department of Homeland Security Keeps on Creepin' On...

Re: your article about the DHS iris scanning - that was news to me (but I don't get out much!) I thought you may like to know that that is not the only skullduggery they're up to that people do not know about.
In our schools (Coronado, California) the DHS runs the remedial program for the kindergarten children. They may also be in the upper grades but my grandson is in kindergarten and I only have first hand experience with that. His mother is an artist and he has inherited her right brain approach to problem solving which is no longer an accepted way of behavior. The schools now seem to have adopted the Chinese way of robotized learning. No phonics no learning letters, sounds, vowels or sounding things out - everything is memorized by sight. Flash cards of words are to be memorized for instant recognition. When my grandson failed to perform to their liking and I think too that they recognized in him a free-thinker, they remanded him to the remedial class with the truly stupid children. There the flash cards and the protocol were drummed into him with cookies as reward for right answers. When he replied to a card that he wasn't sure if it was "this" or "that" he was told not to think to just react. The girls there laughed, making fun of him - for that they were rewarded with cookies. My grandson thought that was beyond unjust and was furious with the whole matter.
His parents, upon investigating this "class" - which bye the way, was never mentioned to the them, no permission to leave regular class was given by them and they were not informed that their son was going through this until he came home in tears and told them - were told by the school administration that the DHS conducted these classes and they should be glad they did because the school districts have no money for classes.
They (and I) did not think that was true (there is always the money they need, especially in Coronado), we did think that the DHS is robotizing our children. Teaching them to follow orders unconditionally - sit at a computer and do as they're told without thinking.
That coupled with the regular military indoctrination these children receive* is a scary way to grow up and scary to think about who and what they will be when they're fully conditioned and trained. We just don't think our child will be cannon fodder - it's not part of our plans for him.
*The school has rallies where the children all get out of class, go sit in the field, get candy and watch the Navy SEALS parachute onto the field and a slew of military personnel give talks about how they are the true heroes of our country, how fun it is to be in the Army, Navy, Marines, all the fun stuff you get to do. At the end they were asked..."everyone who wants to be a SEAL, raise your hand".
My grandson said "grandma, I didn't raise my hand because I want to be an actor".
This travesty is sponsored by the school district and Time Warner Cable.
Just yesterday there were no classes because of the all day jog-a-thon to raise money for "Character Building". When my son looked up "Character Building" at the school he found it was Navy wives bringing their laptops to school, Skyping the husbands overseas and sharing it with the whole class - upon which the class elects the military person their "favorite hero". This is during class time and no parent was ever informed.
The children also have been taught the military anthems and were video taped singing them for a special for Patriot Day - an event to be televised. For this a permission slip was sent to the parents asking their permission for their child to be taped. The slip did not say why or what they would be doing - just give us your permission to use your child in a televised event. When my son went to school to find out what it was about, he was stonewalled by one person after another until someone spilled the beans and he learned that the children had spent class time for weeks learning these songs and rehearsing the taping.
Now the school is complaining to him that they think his son may be missing too many school days and will fall behind in his work (remember, this is kindergarten). Not wanting to make waves -which would result in his son being ostracized, he made a lame reply. At home I said to him, you should have told them...have you noticed that he's only absent on the military indoctrination days?
So, my friend, there you have in a nutshell what's going on between the military DHS and our precious offspring. Do they have a chance?
Hopefully you can follow up on this and make it a matter of public record. I hope you are so inclined. Everyone who I have told about this is shocked and stunned and they may not believe me as you know there are things going on this world that people just do not want to know. I am too old and too weak to fight but I'm not too old to harass you youngin's into action.
Good luck and thank you for your reporting.

In our UK news media the other day we here of this school (not sure if it is the first one) which is now using face-recognition technology so they will know which children are not showing up---we call it 'playing truant'--. In the media slot it had people saying how great it was!
Thing is--I HATED school, and did bunk off otherwise i would have gone madder than I went. Also we are more and more hearing of children who are so bullied in their school years they end up killing themselves! Already in the last month there have been approximately six of these child suicides in America alone, and also several here in the UK.
As John Taylor Gattot reveals, the very 'education' system is enforced. Here, if children are found to not be attending classes their parents risk fines, and prison! So along with this pressure they are now using the very invasive surveilance face technology. This WRONG as the branch of the technology you talk about is wrong. VERY fukin wrong!!!