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Originally Posted by xjoe3x
Good question, the first one. 
If they are adopted then the adopted parents make the decision.
Where ever they happen to be the adult that is responsible for them should make the decision.
Education is paid for by taxes. If they want a private education for their child but can not afford it then they should have considered that before having a child in the first place. |
Well what if the parents die and the elderly poor grandparents are left as legal guardians, they are goiung to struggle to pay for the education, but they didn't plan for the child ? What if a family is reasonably well off - i don't mean rich, just in well paid working class jobs and the industry collapses or is moved abroads and there is shortages in the labor market ? The child or children will have to drop out of education for a year, maybe two, maybe even longer as the parents have to take up low paid jobs just to feed the family. Or what if the parent suffers an accident and is laid off from work, or becomes permanently disabled ? I think what your position really forgets or overlooks is that poverty works in cycles. The world is not so simple as rich and poor, unforeseen circumstances occur and too many people would be left behind.
Just look at the table on page 132. It may be a historical study, but it is relevant in that those who are classed as sometimes poor and often poor (whether that number today is smaller or larger is irrelevant, only that such groups exist matter) would suffer under what you advocate.
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