Black Ops Jungle: The Academy of Military Industrial Complex Studies

September 19th, 2007

Via: Mother Jones:

Dedicated to everything from architecture to sports medicine, “career academies” claim to offer high school kids focus, relevancy, and solid job prospects. Now add a new kind of program to the list: homeland security high. In late August, Maryland’s Joppatowne High School became the first school in the country dedicated to churning out would-be Jack Bauers. The 75 students in the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness magnet program will study cybersecurity and geospatial intelligence, respond to mock terror attacks, and receive limited security clearances at the nearby Army chemical warfare lab.

The new school is funded and guided by a slew of federal, state, and local agencies, not to mention several defense firms. Officials say it will teach kids to understand the “new reality,” though they hasten to add that the school isn’t focused just on terrorism. School administrators, channeling Cheneyesque secrecy, refused to be interviewed for this story. But it’s no secret that the program is seen as a model for the rest of the country, with the Pentagon and other agencies watching closely.

Students will choose one of three specialized tracks: information and communication technology, criminal justice and law enforcement, or “homeland security science.” David Volrath, executive director of secondary education for Harford County Public Schools, says the school also hopes to offer “Arabic or some other nontraditional, Third World-type language.”

Research Credit: DS

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3 Responses to “Black Ops Jungle: The Academy of Military Industrial Complex Studies”

  1. travis says:
    September 19, 2007 at 4:18 am

    Hitler Youth

    sorry, had to say it, it’s just too damn obvious.

  2. eyelight says:
    September 19, 2007 at 9:47 am

    the school also hopes to offer “Arabic or some other nontraditional, Third World-type language.”

    What a grasp on world culture. The mind boggles.

  3. neighbor says:
    September 19, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Kevin, sorry to be off topic, but I just came across a site that’s tracking Minot-lost-nuke-related deaths:

    http://www.legitgov.org/minot_afb_nukes_oddities.html

    Wasn’t sure if a comment appended to that old post of yours would be lost back there…

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