Hillary Clinton Wants Benevolent Bureaucrats to Bring More ‘Structure’ to Poor Kids’ Lives
24th February 2016
It sounds like an old argument for the allegedly uplifting effects of imperialism, though in this case she’s calling not for colonizing territory but for colonizing time. In Clinton’s worldview, what the disadvantaged need is to have “structure” imposed on them, and the way to impose that structure is to compel them to spend more time in institutions. (Notice that she isn’t arguing here for, say, offering after-school or summer programs for families who want them. To “expand the school day and the school year” is to expand the hours and days that kids are coerced to be in school.)