There’s about 300 million Americans: <http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html> One in 100 Americans is in the military: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/military_of_the_united_states> One in 100 Americans is in prison: <http://www.gateway.net/pf/story.jsp?floc=ff-apo-1333&idq=/ff/story/0001%2f20080228%2f1416293107.htm&sc=1333> One in four Americans is in school: <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/nptable?_bm=y&-qr_name=acs_2004_est_g00_np01&-geo_id=01000us&-ds_name> And there are frequent, and often successful, movements to change schools so that students are: - Required to attend school year-round - Wear uniforms - Submit to drug testing - Submit to searches and metal detectors - Have armed police officers on campus They say it's a more dangerous world. But where is the danger coming from? And is it going anywhere? Tags: better living through institutionalizati, happy days are here again
|