I must respectfully disagree.
She says, "So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that the kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities."
Totally wrong. But breaking down families is a communist wet dream and nothing new. It was the doctrine of the Bolshevik Revolution and nothing's changed. Yes, we are members of a community, but the community doesn't raise my daughter, I do. If the goal was to raise a mindless, collective robot with a victim mentality, then I would agree and let the community do it. The best thing I can do for my community is raise my daughter in a manner that ensures she will never be dependent and she can participate and contribute to society in a meaningful way. Communities don't do that, parents do. Parents who care about their children do anyway.
She goes on to say, "Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household, then we start making better investments."
We already have this and obviously it's not working because public schools suck. Everyone must pay property taxes and the largest portion of those property taxes go to public schools, whether you have children or not. No matter how much is spent on public schools, they aren't going to improve. In fact, public schools get way too much money already. If I did my job as poorly as teachers do, I'd be fired (side note: the dumbest people I met in college were all working on their teaching degrees). A teacher's job is to produce educated children. They have failed, quite miserably, to do this for decades and it gets worse every year. It's not a monetary problem. The problem is curriculum. Quit indoctrinating children into LGBT bullshit and climate activist bullshit and start teaching them to read and write. The greatest thing to come out of Covid nonsense was the remote learning from home. All across the country, parents got look over their kid's shoulder to see what their kids were learning and they're pissed. Public schools just suck regardless of how much money they have.
