Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students

[applegrove]

Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into The Minds Of Public School Students

by Joy Resmovitz at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/koch-brothers-education_n_5587577.html

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In some ways, the class looked like a typical high school business course, taught in a Highland Park classroom by a Highland Park teacher. But it was actually run by Youth Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit group created and funded primarily by Charles G. Koch, the billionaire chairman of Koch Industries.

The official mission of Youth Entrepreneurs is to provide kids with "business and entrepreneurial education and experiences that help them prosper and become contributing members of society." The underlying goal of the program, however, is to impart Koch's radical free-market ideology to teenagers. In the last school year, the class reached more than 1,000 students across Kansas and Missouri.

Lesson plans and class materials obtained by The Huffington Post make the course's message clear: The minimum wage hurts workers and slows economic growth. Low taxes and less regulation allow people to prosper. Public assistance harms the poor. Government, in short, is the enemy of liberty.

Though YE has avoided the public spotlight, the current structure of the program began to take shape in November 2009, documents show, when a team of associates at the Charles G. Koch Foundation launched an important project with Charles Koch's blessing: They would design and test what they called "a high school free market and liberty-based course" with support from members of the Koch family's vast nonprofit and political network. A pilot version of the class would be offered the following spring to students at the Wichita Collegiate School, an elite private prep school in Kansas where Koch was a top donor.


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[Uncle Joe]

1. They are some evil shits.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Agreed. nt

[pleinair]

2. Wow

just Wow

[RKP5637]

3. They are parasites on America. Disgusting creepy creatures slithering around. n/t

[BrotherIvan]

4. You are correct

I haven't ever truly looked forward to reading someone obituary until these two. Die already.

[tclambert]

5. They are 78 and 74, so they won't be able to hurt America for much longer.

What will the GOP do when their financial base dies off?

[Brigid]

6. But do they have spawn?

If they do, this will only be perpetuated after they're gone.

[Dustlawyer]

8. Couple that with the "newspapers" secretly owned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that they

have for free outside of jury assembly rooms in several U.S. cities. Ours is the Southeasttexasrecord.com. The new one opened on NOLA for the BP case. They all have "Record" in the name. They originally started in West Virginia and then moved into all of the Chamber's so called "Judicial Hellholes."

They are designed to influence jurors to vote against Plaintiffs and in favor of corporations!