Vermont schools becoming a right-wing cult?

If there were any doubts that America's schools have become a soul-smashing cult, the fact that this is going on in Vermont of all places will dash those doubts.

Vermont's board of education has just confirmed a new deputy commish who has a rather, uh, interesting record. She has served as a director of several programs for troubled teens, some of which have been confirmed to be abusive right-wing cults. (One of these cults was the site of several deaths.)

A cult leader is in charge of Vermont public schools? You expect this in Kentucky, not Vermont.

Not only that, but she has also been in charge of how the state spends stimulus money.

Having cult leaders in charge of stimulus spending and public education is sure to be an automatic disaster, but it's not as if they aren't already running our schools - as America's schools already border on being a cult.

Indeed, there's a web of people who have their paws in our schools and abusive youth programs simultaneously. When a baby sticks their fingers in all the desserts at a party, chunks of cake usually end up in the sherbet, and vice versa. Well, that's what this is like, as large hunks of youth confinement programs are deposited in our schools, and vice versa.

Abusive programs recruit in our schools, and the schools allow it - because they share much of the same web of folks. And this story highlights this phenomenon as never before.

(Source: http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/october/rae-ann-knopf-appointed-vermont-deputy-commissioner-education;
http://isaccorp.org)