[extropy-chat] education

[Ned Late]

The collateral issue is: Are the parents clueless, resulting in them dumping the responsibility for public schools on the government and unions?
Also (and this might be going into tinfoil hat territory) there might be a good economic reason for educational mediocrity:  the demand for higher wages by semi-illiterate manual laboring native born Americans is great, resulting in greater automation than one would have if firms rely more on foreign labor importation. At least that is how it was explained to me.


Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
Few, if any, people with three kids pay $27,000 in taxes to
educate their kids. That burden is spread around among many people
without kids: young single people, elderly retired people, childless
couples, in a way that is morally illegitimate. Those that have kids
already seek to use public policy to close the door on those who want
kids in order to prevent increasing the public education tax burden.
Economically exiling young breeding couples who earn below the median
income is a common occurence in many communities through the use of
regulation to prevent housing development.

Communities that do not have the ability to become high value, high
income enclaves can only reduce their tax burden by reducing and/or
eliminating the centralized public school infrastructure,
decentralizing the public school system to a network of small
neighborhood schools/resource centers similar to the sort of one room
school house system that grew in the US in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries that created the highest level of literacy in our history.

The era of the behemoth super-school is over. The cost of such
infrastructure is a relic of the union movement toward monopolizing the
educational labor supply and does not add value to the education of children.


		
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