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To: whitepine who wrote (157185)	9/18/2011 12:41:41 AM
From: GST	21 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206108

You almost ask the right questions -- but your questions are framed butt-backwards. What does it cost to FAIL to educate a poor child? Educating a child is a bargain compared to the cost of failing to educate a child. In many major cities in the US upwards of 30% or more of the kids don't graduate from high school -- in a global economy they will not be able to feed themselves much less make a positive contribution to society. Companies that require a well-educated workforce will leave and go where there is a decent supply of literate educated people. The uneducated poor will not earn enough in America to help pay the costs of living in civilized society, they will generate far more negative social costs for things like extra policing, the judicial system and warehousing them in jail when they inevitably come to find themselves turning to crime to seal their identity as human garbage. In California, the state now spends more money on jails that higher education -- and the trend is accelerating. The writing is on the wall -- we are on track to become a third class economy in a world that woke up to the value of education while we fell asleep on the job. It costs more not to educate a child than it costs to educate a child. Living in an educated society benefits every man woman and child in the country. Living in an uneducated society impoverishes us all. As for the real world -- why presume you know anything about the real world when you so comfortably allow your prejudice to blind you to the real life experiences of small children growing up in poverty. Do you think a five year old in America should be written off as garbage for having committed the sin of being born poor?And without an education, are you satisfied to live in a country whose failure snowballs to the point where poverty becomes the norm and the middle class is nothing more than a nostalgia dream? For the poor, uneducated and unemployed children that you look down upon, there is one salvation left in America -- an endless supply of cheap handguns ensures them that when they grow up they will indeed have some means to make a living. Stickem up.