No Education Required

Talking with a former school employee the other day, I finally figured out why my neighborhood is overrun with school age kids who never go to school. It always confused me, because if you're working class, the school board will send the court after you for truancy without blinking. I couldn't figure out how all my neighbors were getting away with it. Apparently, if your child is headed towards truancy court, and it doesn't look like you can be bullied, your child goes on homeschool, and no one follows up to ensure standards are being met. Problem solved.

You can't really blame the school district (as much as I would like to). The state is keeping track of the numbers. This means that the county that cheats the most, looks the best. You're going to get shut down if you try to address the problem in an effective fashion. This seems to happen every time bureaucrats try to make things run more efficiently.

It does keep problem kids out of the schools. But, the kids who fall into this category are usually the ones who've never seen anything but a government check lifestyle. Their parents and relatives generally don't work and usually have the combined IQ of tree sap. To place these children on homeschool means that they have absolutely no chance of breaking the cycle of government dependence or of amounting to anything. At least the numbers look good and the kids aren't getting above their raising.