Opinion of the USA! (Split)

[Torie]

Commenting on opebo's and politicus's latest comment, free tuition for public higher education for everybody is a net subsidy to the better off. It would increase inequality, not decrease it. Carefully crafted subsidies for those who cannot afford the same, and would benefit from such an education (many in the system are not benefitting), is another matter. In some ways, the Left agenda will facilitate an ossified class structure, not mitigate it. But I digress.

If you really want to facilitate class mobility, you need to get at kids early in the educational process, starting about two years of age, and really focus on that, so that the ability of kids when they hit first grade is more equal. When you have upper middle class kids by the first grade, having five times the vocabulary of kids not read to by their parents, who also have little or no education, it is almost game over before it begins. And to repeat a point that I have made about 500 times on this forum, starting with grammar school, the poor teacher quality for kids in down market zip codes is a national disgrace, and evil. Just why there is not more outrage about that on the Left, puzzles me. Do they really care about poor folks, vis a vis giving them the tools to compete, or do they just want to make them a handout constituency, which as time goes on, is less and less affordable, as medical service demands, and old people subsidies, chew up more and more of the pie?