So there I was doing a bit of browsing and saw this at Samizdata.
The logic of socialism is to look at someone in a wheelchair and punish the able-bodied by breaking their legs.
– The Academic Agent, talking about The Problem with the BBC. The whole thing lasts just under ten minutes, and that little nugget comes about a minute before the end.
The linked video is worth watching by the way. However, I thought it a fair assessment of the mind of the socialist. Barely five minutes later I saw this over at the Guardian.
There are broadly two types of option: those that handicap private schools, making them less attractive to parents, and those that envisage “crossing the tracks” – some form of integration with the state-school sector. Some reforms would have much more of an impact than others.
I think that The Academic Agent’s point has just been made…
When we returned to the UK from South Africa in 1995, we moved to a village near Beverley so that our two boys could attend Beverley Grammar School and our (then) only daughter could attend Beverley Girls High School. As far as we are concerned, our primary responsibility is to our children and we have always striven to give them every advantage in life.
When we moved to Australia, sans our eldest son, but with an extra daughter, all three children attended a private Anglican school, our youngest daughter spending her entire school career at the same school. Private schooling in Australia is different than the UK, about a third of children attend them and receive taxpayer support about half of that of state pupils.
If private schools didn’t exist, parents with the resources would find other ways of giving their children an advantage, why the hell wouldn’t you? We’d like all kids to get a great education, but we’d always endeavour to give our children a better one than the average.
You are clearly a terrible person.