There are two ways of looking at the object of education of the young. The first is that it is for the benefit of the child. The second is that it is for the benefit of society. People's priorities can lie somewhere between those two, but most people see one outweighing the other. Many who don't have children of their own then complain about and resist paying taxes to benefit other peoples' children. This attitude also shows up when proposals for improving the education of the children of poverty come up. The methods and staff needed to educate these children are more costly than for students from other (well-off) families. Our question as a community is: do we continue the false economy and false equality that has led to these embarrassing test results, or do we step up to the task of properly educating the students that we have been leaving behind?
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