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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Whose children?



In an promo spot, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says:

"We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of “These are our children.” So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everyone’s responsibility and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments."

2 comments:

  1. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC) would be proud.

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  2. For another example of conditioning see this article

    http://news.yahoo.com/dad-furious-finding-crayon-written-paper-florida-4th-124614291.html

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