Education Secretary Wants Government Boarding Schools: “Certain Kids We Should Have 24/7”

Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently spoke at the fourth annual Youth Violence Prevention Summit at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City by an interagency initiative led by the Justice and Education departments. Secretary Duncan discussed the role of public education in reducing youth violence. Secretary Duncan stated that one of the federal government's ideas to curb "youth violence" was to start government boarding schools. He states that there are "certain children we should have 24/7." Do you agree with Secretary Duncan? Should the federal government take the role of "parents" and take some children and put them into government boarding schools so that they have them "24/7" at taxpayers' expense?