CNN/AP: Homeland Security to launch preparedness program for kids

[DeepModem Mom]

Homeland Security to launch preparedness program for kids
Friday, January 20, 2006


(AP) -- After more than a year of delays, the Department of Homeland Security says it plans to launch a preparedness program next month aimed at alerting and preparing children for terror attacks and natural disasters.

The program, called Ready Kids, is scheduled to roll out with TV ads, school programs and other events.

"Ready Kids is a tool for parents and teachers to use to be able to speak to their students and children about how to be prepared for any type of disaster," said DHS spokeswoman Joanna Gonzalez.

Gonzalez said the program will include age-appropriate activities and lessons on preparedness.

FEMA, an agency within the DHS, already has a program preparing children for disasters. "FEMA for Kids" (www.fema.gov/kids) includes a pudgy and nervous-looking airplane leaking a trail of smoke, a hermit crab mascot named "Herman," and a song with a rap beat:

"Disaster . . . it can happen anywhere,

"But we've got a few tips, so you can be prepared,

"For floods, tornadoes, or even a 'quake,

"You've got to be ready -- so your heart don't break."...


http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/20/ready.kids.ap/index.html

[NVMojo]

1. First the brainwashing then the Solent Green....

[HuffleClaw]

2. oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me the mascot will be

Bert the Turtle!

[ewoden]

5. No it's going to be . . .

Brownie the rat!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Just don't count on your Government to lend a hand.

Katrina anyone? :eyes:

[babylonsister]

4. DM Mom, see here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x191556

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Thanks, babylonsister! nt

[henslee]

6. remember kids... observe your parents carefully and report them if

you detect any suspicous behavior.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

30. Does this make anyone else think of 1984?

:shrug:

[DELUSIONAL]

8. the f-ing fed have already done the fear thing -- tuck & duck

to survive a nuke attack from the evil Reds.

[LibDemAlways]

9. I remember those idiotic drop drills.

OK kids, if an atomic bomb hits our school, we're all going to be vaporized as we crouch under our desks rather than while sitting at our desks.

[Hekate]

11. "...and kiss your ass goodbye" as my high school BF used to say

Having teachers run us through bomb drills may have made our parents feel a little better (after all, they had just survived WW II), but looking back it was pretty stupid.

Although there was the time an airplane crashed next to my elementary school...when the noise reached crescendo my teacher said "Drop!" and you bet we dived under our desks.

Hekate

[appleannie1]

10. Good Grief

Sounds like the squat and cover thing we did in the fifties. As though going into a hallway and covering your head would protect you from a nuclear attack. Bottom line is "Scare the crap out of them".

[sarcasmo]

18. Fear is the Republicans way. Install fear at a young age a new low.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

29. There's nothing new about it.

It's been going on for decades.
Duckie

[Hekate]

12. "Children, take out your duct tape.Today we'll practice securing our desks

...with that and the Saran Wrap you brought from home yesterday." :rofl:

Heckuva job, Chertoff!

Hekate

[murielm99]

13. Saran Wrap and duct tape:

The two newest items on your back-to-school supply list.

[radfringe]

14. Ready Kids!!!!!

crawl under your desk and kiss your butt goodbye

[Jamison]

15. Their basic program message.

"Be afraid kids, be VERRRRRRRRRRRRY afraid!":puke:

[donsu]

16. NO! keep the bloody bushmilhousegang away from the children

Hitler is smiling

[MichiganVote]

17. The new "Duck and Cover" of the Cold War

[Carni]

23. Did they still do the duck and cover thing in 1969?

I swear I remember having to do that but I wasn't even around in the 50's.

I swear I recall having to do the duck and cover thing in kindergarten which would have been in like 69 (maybe it was a tornado drill?)

Anyone know when they stopped those silly drills?

[MichiganVote]

24. No, it was a latter 50's, early 60's thing.

[Carni]

25. I must be remembering a tornado drill

Thanks for the clarification.

[MichiganVote]

26. Usually tornado drills in the schools put you in the hallways

The duck and cover films of the 50's showed all these school kids in their classrooms ducking under their desks and covering their heads. Surely in a nuclear explosion it would have worked wonders...:eyes:

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[Carni]

27. Yes, wouldn't it have!

I like those old filmstrips where they suggested that men wear wide brimmmed hats in the event of nulear fallout! (kind of makes me wonder if they know what they are doing using plutonium to fuel that Pluto spacecraft!)

[MichiganVote]

28. As I understand it, the plutonium used /spacecraft is not the same

as that used in weaponary. What the explosive difference is I can't say.

[Carni]

32. That's good to know!

I just heard plutonium and thought holy God now what has some bush appointee done lol

[MichiganVote]

34. I saw a news report on it. I think that's what most people thought.

Apparantly the energy produced by the spacecraft is less than that of 100 watt bulb. 1 in 350 chance of an accident at the time of launch.

[wordpix2]

31. go under the desk, kids. Nukes won't bother you there!!!

[Maddy McCall]

37. It carried over into the 70s.

Specifically, Nuclear attack drills. Ridiculous, I know, but we had them into the 70s.

[KoKo]

38. Into the 70's? Where did you grow up?

Good Grief!!

[Maddy McCall]

36. Yes, and into the 70s.

I can still recall the many times our teachers made us hide under our desks, in case of a nuclear attack. As if those small desks would have saved us. :eyes:

[BiggJawn]

19. Do they get a nifty dagger upon completion of the course?

"Ready-Kid Bubba Rumpus of Monon, Indiana stands at the entrance to his family's "Freedom Shelter" waiting for the order to enter and seal up the door with his DHS-Approved Duck Tape during the recent Fourth of July celebration demonstartion/drill in Monon..."

[Not_Giving_Up]

20. I suppose this is the new version of Duck and Cover

I'm sure my kids will let me know when this BS shows up at school.

[gunsaximbo]

21. US Fascism

* report anything suspicious
* turn in your neighbors
* if your your parents work with muslims - report them
* if the owner of the quick mart doesn't say "thank you" - report it


Is this paranoid fascism or what?

[leesa]

22. Ah yes..keep the young ones afraid at all times so they will remian your

Stupid Slaves, just like Mommy and Daddy. It's all bullshit, kiddies.

[MiniMe]

33. Duct Tape for Kids? nt

[Maddy McCall]

35. And you guys question me removing my son from public school and...

homeschooling him. Between the nutso government and the fundie teachers, I have never EVER second-guessed my initial decision.

[Kool Kitty]

39. Looks like it's time to call Bert the Turtle.

He was always alert and he knew just what to do....he'd "Duck and Cover".

[davsand]

40. Times are changing back...

Laura

[f-bush]

41. Kind of like the "Hitler Youth" program, I'm sure!!!

[mikeybabe125]

42. AHHHH!!

Remember the cold-war turtle? A elephant would be hard to fit under a table...