When It Comes To Education, How Dumb.

What is it that you hear most about the poor? They're lazy? They don't work, they just sit around, get tattoos, smoke, drink and sponge off hard working people. Well guess what? To some extent that's true. But if it's true, then how do you go about turning them around? How do you get poor people off welfare? The one way we seem to keep trying, over and over, is to provide their children with low standard educational opportunities. Poorly equipped, run-down schools, lower paid teachers. We keep trying these models and they keep failing to turn out highly motivated young people. Just more poor people to sponge off working folks. Why do you suppose that is? Here's an experiment you might want to try. Take just a few of those schools and fix them up, equip them with the best equipment, give them some of the best teachers. I'll bet that by the time they get to high school, they'll be as advanced as the other kids in the more affluent schools. Well, maybe not quite as advanced. That's because they wouldn't have the other advantages of being affluent. Of having families that can afford perks like tutors, college tuition and other life experiences away from school. But it seems cheaper to just let those kids have the bad schools so we can go on complaining. After all, it is one of our favorite pastimes. And we get to do it without it costing us a single dime. The thing is though, it does costs us more in the long run to pay for the welfare, than it does for the better education. That's because we're less likely to have to provide welfare for the better educated. So from the standpoint of economics, we're being dumb. I'm just saying.