Stop subsidizing failure and apathy, and I think you'll get a lot less of it.
Then how do you explain even more widespread failure and apathy in those nations where education ISN'T mandatory?
Interestng you would cede the right to parents to cripple their kids' lives (granted, many are doing a pretty good job of that already). In Barakistan then, are we to have NO child welfare laws? Can folks make like a bunch of them notorious Iranians and marry their daughters off at age nine? Bind their feet like old-time Chinese? Have 'em go work six days a week at the Nike factory? Sell 'em into the sex trade?
Birdwatcher
