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The War on Kids
Dir. Cevin D. Soling. 2009. N/R. 95mins. Documentary.Tackling a host of important issues via unsubstantiated fearmongering, The War on Kids details society’s malevolent attacks on the nation’s defenseless schoolchildren. While classroom violence, drugs and the evil called homework are all valid candidates for criticism, director Cevin D. Soling eschews context and facts in favor of extremism. Talking-head interviewees equate students’ experiences with those of POWs (!), slander pharmaceuticals as lobotomizing evils and malign public schools as akin to “fascist nations”; looniest of all, one blames school bells as agents of psychological destruction. It’s a hysterical doc that’s a war on rational, levelheaded analysis.—Nick Schager
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Time Out New York / Issue 738 : Nov 19–25, 2009
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Nick Schager apparently didn't learn to read in Public School--as the movie provides numerous citations for study after study from which these conclusions are drawn, and many interviews with authors who have written books after drawing these same conclusions. Hardly "unsubstantiated fearmongering." It would seem that Schager considers cognitive dissonance and brain-washing to be "rational, levelheaded analysis."