Regardless of political opinion, I can't get my head around how basic education and a safe space for children can be frowned upon - no matter their social circumstances, color of skin, nationality or descent.
Part of it is also schools spending millions on sports facilities that only benefit a small portion of the students. 99.9% of whom will never play a team sport again after high school. My own kid’s school just did that. Meanwhile they don’t even have a pair of $200 choir mics so parents can actually hear the school choir singing in the auditorium.
I know some people like that.
All I can say is that I know people that vote for extreme right wing even when those policies will make their lives more difficult, only because it will hurt people that they dislike even more.
It is a bit weird to watch happening, but it is hardly surprising that those in power will capitalize on the frustration and spite of people.
None of that is right, but it’s not difficult to understand either. Don’t try to find some complex logic behind it, the reasoning is incredibly basic.
If this is really what they are afraid of, wouldn't depriving them of basic education reduce the amount of common values around them and make matters worse?
Eschew the thought that children are somehow special. They’re not. They’re simply a younger version of a person, not a separate being worthy of special reverence. A racist doesn’t hate another race and then hate their children on top, they just hate the race as a whole.
You're absolutely right in that a text-book racist might not distinguish between children and adults. Imagining that this is so common it dictates decisions on this level is hard to grasp for me.