hillary's "it takes a village" book is nonsense. But it does matter to all of us that children get an education. If for no other reason, we will all be old someday, and will need doctors and bankers and military to keep us healthy and safe. That's why people who don't have children contribute to the education of children they didn't bring into the world.
The important thing is that the money we spend on education actually works for that purpose. Anyone who thinks we can educate every child equally is having a pipe dream. What we should be trying for is to educate every child to the best of their ability. And many of our public schools don't do that. I'm happy for you that yours does, but that's relatively rare these days.
And, yes, private and charter schools in most places are allowed to have entrance requirements.
Areas that do allow vouchers wind up with many schools for problem students - the "bad seeds", the special needs, etc. They just don't interfere with the bright kids who might go far.
And we don't all have choices. Do you honestly think that anyone would live in a crime-ridden inner city if they had a choice?
There are a lot of us out there who would just love the choice to even have children, but that doesn't mean I don't have any choice. I can still do the best I can to live my own life and serve others. There are INDEED some who have no choice--those facing an incurable illness and such. Any time I start feeling sorry for myself, I need to think that there's someone else who has it MUCH worse than I do.
I remember some Dear Abby letters MANY years back. A teenage girl wrote how she wasn't happy because her parents were fairly strict with her (paraphrasing here). A soldier wrote back that happiness was being able to walk, happiness was being able to talk, and so on. It really put things into perspective for me as a kid. It makes me appreciate more than anything, those who fight for our freedoms and have to often give up family and all sorts of things as they are doing it. AND it helps me remember how blessed I am already and not to forget it.
Ah, but that is not true. Everyone has choices. And when you make poor choices in life, you suffer the consequences. And that is no one else's fault but your own.
You have a choice whether or not you want to do well in high school. You have a choice whether or not you want to have children out of wedlock, or at a young age. You have a choice whether or not you go to college, or work hard to get a scholarship to do so. You have a choice in your education, you have a choice in your lifestyle. Everyone in this country has the freedom to choose how and where they live. It is only a matter of how hard you are willing to work. That is what makes this country great. Everyone has the opportunity to succeed. Some choose not to do so. I do not buy this "less fortunate" routine. As if the choices I made were just luck? Not so.
How would you explain all of the people in this country who grew up dirt poor, on welfare, in the projects, who worked hard so that they could be successful? I think Thomas Sowell might disagree with your premise, as well as every other American who worked hard, made good choices, and reaped the benefits.
hillary's "it takes a village" book is nonsense
Of course it is. That is why I used it as an example.