National Review's Right-Wing Fantasies

In a column by National Review's Katie O'Beirne, we find this description of adolescent life in Cuba:

Elián also has a Student Cumulative Dossier, where teachers make a record of his and his family's opinions and behavior. Elián would have gotten good marks for belonging to the Young Communist Pioneers, which he had joined before leaving Cuba. The group's motto is: "We shall be like Che." The school's curriculum is saturated with the glories of the revolution. In the fourth and fifth grades, Elián's written compositions will concentrate on "Yankee imperialism" and "Cuba's enemies." There is also time for a kind of recreation that will counter the corrupting influence of Disney World: The schools have frequent exercises called "Military Games for Pioneers," in which the children play at attacking bridges, finding land mines, sneaking up on sentries, and throwing grenades through windows. At age ten, children head off to agricultural work camps for three months each year, where they work and continue their military games.

Yeah, we don't have anything like that in America.