Arizona Lawmaker wants to repeal law on compulsory education

[Va Lefty]

This got locked in LBN reposting here.

“Education used to be a privilege,” he told Hank Stephenson of the Arizona Capitol Times. “People used to believe getting an education was something you had to be privileged to get, that you had to work hard to get. Now we basically force it down everybody’s throats.”

We’re telling kids they have to go to school, and we put fences around the schools to protect them now, and we give them a meal or two and sometimes send a backpack of food home with them. So now schools are not only tasked with educating our children, but also feeding our children. What happened to the personal responsibility of a parent to feed and educate their kids?”

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2017/05/01/roberts-arizona-legislator-says-kids-shouldnt-have-go-school/308643001/

To quote from Fargo last week.."unfathomable pinheadery"

[cloudbase]

1. Making America great again. n/t

[malthaussen]

2. Oh, bull pucky.

Most of the charters for the various colonies, as well as the constitutions for the individual states, contained provisions for universal education. Even for girls, bigod.

-- Mal

[Golden Raisin]

3. Fast track to "Deplorable" status.

[Iggo]

4. "...something you had to be privileged to get..."

Yeah.

We know.

Check it.

[workinclasszero]

5. Republicans would kill compulsory education so they can go back to this...

Hungry poor kids work like slave's y'all! MAGA baby!

[Eugene]

6. Let freedumb reign!

Libertarian nut jobs like him used to the fringe of American politics.
Now they hold elective office and are trying to make policy.