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Pat Buchanan Is Finally Fired From MSNBC

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)2/17/2012 5:41:33 am PST

re: #420 Decatur Deb

Just arguing that raising your kids for the public good doesn’t fit neatly into a left-right mold. The good old boy down the street who sends his son and daughter into a free-fire zone is doing the “progressive collectivist” thing. The Romney Gingrich and Santorum families might not agree with me, but they have no standing on the issue.

Public education is one of the great equalizers in our society. Otherwise, you get the underclass remaining the underclass except for exceptional people (driven, or simply lucky.) Not to mention that literacy and some degree of education is essentially mandatory in an industrialized society.

But the quality of a local school system essentially boils down to the community’s will. Good parents can cover a lot of ground, and are essential as well. But good parents *will* remove their children from a bad system since their primary goal is a good education for their child.