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<h1 class="entry-title"> FBI Orders High School Teachers To Report
Anti-Government Students</h1>
<p class="meta post-meta">Posted on <span class="updated">March
5, 2016</span> by <span class="vcard author"><a class="fn"
href="http://yournewswire.com/author/cyrus/">Sean
Adl-Tabatabai</a></span> <a
href="http://yournewswire.com/fbi-orders-high-school-teachers-to-report-anti-government-students/#disqus_thread"></a></p>
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<p><strong>The FBI have launched a new program forcing high schools
across America to report students that display “anti-government”
or rebellious behavior to authorities. </strong></p>
<p>The program is an attempt to prevent future terrorists from
manifesting, in the governments ongoing “war on terror”.</p>
<p>The FBI are urging school teachers to report any “suspicious
behavior” to authorities in their new guidelines entitled “<em>Preventing
Violent Extremism in Schools</em>“.</p>
<p><a
href="http://sputniknews.com/us/20160305/1035810676/fbi-high-school-profiling.html"
target="_blank">Sputniknews.com</a> reports:</p>
<p>“High school students are ideal targets for recruitment
by violent extremists seeking support for their radical
ideologies, foreign fighter networks, or conducting acts
of violence within our borders,” the FBI guidelines read.</p>
<p>Labeled “Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools,” the guidelines
instruct educators to look for loosely-defined indicators that a
student could be a threat. “Talking about traveling to places that
sound suspicious,” “using code words or unusual language,” “using
several different cell phones and private messaging apps,” and
“studying or taking pictures of potential targets (like a
government building),” are all listed as potential warning signs.</p>
<p>Educators note that many of these so-called indicators are too
broad to be effective, as they could be applied to almost any
teenager. Other indicators seem specifically geared
toward targeting Muslims.</p>
<p>“In practice, schools seeking to implement this document will end
up monitoring Muslim students disproportionately,” Arun Kundnani,
a professor at New York University, told AlterNet.</p>
<p>A similar program in the United Kingdom, known as “Preventing
Violent Extremism,” relies on mass-surveillance of Muslim
communities and mosques, and has been expanded into the country’s
public schools. This program has been heavily criticized by rights
groups.</p>
<p>“Our case studies show that children are being taken away
from mandatory school hours to be questioned on matters
misconstrued as markers of ‘extremism,” Ibrahim Mohamoud,
communications officer with the Islamic advocacy group CAGE said
in a statement.</p>
<p>“By alienating parents, turning teachers into informants, and
antagonizing students, [UK program] PREVENT is a divisive policy
that does an injustice to the education system.”</p>
<p>The expansion of these programs is especially troubling given
that there is little scientific evidence to suggest that they are
effective.</p>
<p>“Drawing on the junk science of radicalization models, the
document dangerously blurs the distinction between legitimate
ideological expression and violent criminal actions,” Kundani
stated.</p>
<p>Such programs rely on antiquated social theory that has not been
proven.</p>
<p>“The whole concept…is based on the conveyor belt theory – the
idea that ‘extreme ideas’ lead to violence,” Michael German, a
fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National
Security Program, told AlterNet.</p>
<p>“These programs fall back on the older ‘stages of radicalization’
models, where the identified indicators are the expression
of political grievances and religious practices.”</p>
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