Maybe as soon as we can hammer home the fact that education and healthcare are NOT rights they might understand the rest. As it stands, apparently, waaaaay too many people think the government OWES them these things and suggesting they pay for any of it themselves will get laughed and scoffed at.

Excellent points. It's true, that people feel that they're already "paying" for school through their property taxes. The shame of it is that you can't take that money elsewhere to use at a school of your choice.

Agreed

They're sheeple.

"a scare tactic to get people to comply with lunacy..in other words to gain CONTROL of us"
I don't know about this particular case, but I doubt it was a scheme as well planned as you suggest. I suspect this is just some annoying bureaucratic rule being mindlessly enforced.

I do think they indirectly scheme to make middle-class people think they couldn't possibly afford to pay for school unless it came out of property taxes. If people just chose their own schools, most families would avoid the schools with the most troubled people, leaving them alone. They think (maybe rightly so) that it's good for social mobility to have the poor and/or troubled together with the middle class in school.

Annoying bureaucratic rules might actually help dismantle the school. (I'm not entirely sure that's a good idea, but I think there should be more competition.) If people find the rules onerous, they may take charge and select their own education. Anecdotally I keep hearing that. I don't know if the facts back that up.

I hope that many people in this area are anti-gun or something and have found something they agree with. It worries me so much more when I hear people saying someone's doing something to their kid they don't like, which is about the most incendiary thing you can do, and they just say "who is John Galt?"

"Why aren't they showing up in droves??"
Maybe they're leaving in droves leaving behind those who don't really care about the issue. I think that process is starting in my area. People either interview the school and then move to a house in the district or they use private school. People who don't care or have a strong ideological bent consistent with the school stay.

"You told me your finger was a gun!"
James Earl Jones, 'Field of Dreams'

“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.”
James Earl Jones quotes

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