I say we throw money at the problem. Teachers with a bunch of letters after their names will surely motivate neglected kids from broken homes to care about polynomials and Chaucer.

Good education is proportional to the involvement of the parents. It’s the single most important factor in wealthy children being better educated . A parent conscientious enough to be concerned about their child’s education is probably also conscientious enough to earn enough money to raise that child where schools…

I enjoy immensely being responsible for who I am and not chalking up my successes or failures to what I am or where I came from. It amuses me when people talk with such passion about their heritage or their ethnicity or their deep family roots.

Speaking as an adoptee, I don’t give a damn if I ever meet my mother. The need to make a narrative of everything nowadays is just absurd.

Lol. Asians aren’t sociopaths, and somehow they find a way to send raise their kids to respect academics and pursue higher education and lucrative professions.

Kangaroos don't need policy change. Or a primate cerebrum.

And I’m one of those people that looks at reality and makes choices accordingly. I'm fine with people having utopian theories as long as they understand there are real world consequences to their choices, and that they indeed have that freedom to make those choices. Because women in Saudi Arabia don't have that…

And??

Or the inability of the parents to realistically assess their ability to afford children.

Their parents aren’t financially “blessed” because they didn’t study, either.

It’s a good thing you wisely invested your money.

You’re right, there is a correlation. Women don’t care about money, they choose careers that’s satisfy their desire to nurture.

Cool. Don't complain about your property taxes going up then

And?

You're awful at arithmetic. It wouldn't matter how much you make.

this may come as a surprise but most people don’t get to do what they want for a living.

You actually just contradicted yourself

Oh for fucks sake. Neonatal nursing salaries aren’t fucking state secrets.

Right. Our education system is a joke, so let's pay teachers MORE.

Congratulations. Necessity is the mother of all invention. Maybe someday your friend will pull her head out of her ass like you did