President webcasts to all the schoolkids....

CaptainHaplo · 09-05-09, 05:50 PM

Mookie - in the US you currently have an OBLIGATION to education - as your parents are held responsible if you are not in school up to age 16 (or unless you are emancipated).

However, the key here is the "get schooled" initiative is NOT aimed at elementary, middle or high schoolers. It is aimed at those eligible for COLLEGE. The key here is that the reform currently looks to be primarily a push for government sponsored (aka taxpayer funded) free college to everyone. Yet another way to grow governmnt.

I have no issue with BASIC education being both a right and responsibility. ****For the record - any true right comes with its own responsibility****

I do, as many others likely will, have issues of the government finding new programs to use as excuses to take my money. No other person but me has the right to go learn to be a brain surgeon on my dime, unless I choose to pay for it.

09-05-09, 05:50 PM	#26
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Mookie - in the US you currently have an OBLIGATION to education - as your parents are held responsible if you are not in school up to age 16 (or unless you are emancipated). However, the key here is the "get schooled" initiative is NOT aimed at elementary, middle or high schoolers. It is aimed at those eligible for COLLEGE. The key here is that the reform currently looks to be primarily a push for government sponsored (aka taxpayer funded) free college to everyone. Yet another way to grow governmnt. I have no issue with BASIC education being both a right and responsibility. **For the record - any true right comes with its own responsibility** I do, as many others likely will, have issues of the government finding new programs to use as excuses to take my money. No other person but me has the right to go learn to be a brain surgeon on my dime, unless I choose to pay for it. __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo