The Charlotte Capitalist -”My Kid First”
When you make decisions about your child’s education, do you think about what is best for your child or about what is best for society in general?
I know that Mrs. Capitalist and I think about what is best for our children in the context of what we can afford. That is the responsibility of every parent.
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The underlying premise is that the focus of public schools should be on the neediest. The purpose of your taxes and bond repayments is to provide for better schooling for needy kids who, in their view, should get the abundance of resources, and to bus needy kids out to the suburbs forcing overcrowding at those schools. The suburban overcrowding now, they say, requires a $500 million bond issue.
It is time for parents to push back and in pure self-interest say, “What about my kid?” and “My kid first!”
A “My kid first!” perspective would of course lead to a totally private school system. That is not going to happen tomorrow. The thing to do today is to vote against the bond offering. Looks like some parents are going that way according to the article.