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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (510)	1/11/2001 11:51:53 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Shouldn't that first class of kids be given an artificial leg up to compensate for their neglectful parents? Do you see the endless quagmire this sort of reasoning leads to? Who is to pick those who are artificially given privileges and enforce all these rules? A system that is self-enforcing is needed. Yes, it's a quagmire. Condemning a large group of kids to poverty and hopelessness simply because their parents were improvident is a quagmire too. I don't think there is any perfect solution. We look at the various quagmires and try to thread a practical, manageable path among them. I've always wished it were possible to set up boarding schools at the elementary grades, outside the city, for ghetto kids. Very spartan, everybody works to maintain the place. Pull your weight or go away. Free, open admission, but those who break the rules or won't work to the best of their ability go right back where they came from. I'd like those schools to be run not by academic theoreticians, but by people who came from the ghetto and are committed to teaching their people what they need to stay out. Expensive, yes, but but we spend money on a lot of stupider things. It'll never happen, but it's a nice dream.