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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:09:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> But are those children any better off now? If a child has whatever it
> takes to succeed in school when the parents have no care, they ought to
> still do well. There will be organizations working with these children
> (there are now). They will find most of the children who will benefit.
> NO system can guarantee that NO ONE will fall through the cracks.
That's a lovely notion, but it seems at best unrealistic. "Whatever it
takes" is a lot more than academic ability or even a knack for succeeding on
tests; it stems from a solid upbringing and a sound family unit, and there are
demographic correlations across the board to demonstrate the negative effects
of poverty, divorce, abuse, parental drug abuse, and countless other factors
that keep children who may have "whatever it takes" from succeeding in
school. Besides which, the idea that some children have "whatever it takes"
to succeed despite the negative influences of their environment implies some
innate advantage that so enables them and sounds disturbingly like an
assumption of hereditary predisposition to success.
> Of course many of the children who are not sent to school by their
> parents will end up running afoul of the law. You can bet your booties
> that however the justice system works, I'm going to expect that it will
> do something to make sure that these kids get an education to make them
> sufficiently productive to offset the cost of supporting them.
That's quite a trick! What manner of education will the justice system
impart to these poor souls? License plate manufacture? And who will run or
even fund these education factories? The parents who had insufficient money
to educate their children in the first place?
Dave!
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