It cracks me up seeing people try to assimilate longshoremen into the "labor shortage is about the wages" political narrative. Longshoremen easily make six figures and have great benefits. They make more money than the class warriors making these claims. It's really a testament to how bad our K-12 and higher education system is now that people don't even have a sense of these employment options.

These folks are going to be shocked when they learn that counties do not have "rights" versus the state, but are, in fact, political subdivisions that exist at the will of the state. State can do whatever it wants to them.

thedailybeast.com/leon-county-fl… If state lawmakers wanted to, they could write Leon County out of existence at the next legislative session.

These things have already been tried on a large scale, in fact. We've had experiments with busing and consolidating districts. State "equalization" funding already attempts to compensate for difference in property taxes. Public schools are still awful.

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1446212919948156935

Many urban districts already spend more money on a per pupil basis than top-performing private schools with no positive results. There's a reason Black and Hispanic parents are the fastest growing homeschooling demographic.

One of the big reasons unschoolers are not particularly persuasive within the homeschooling community is their pedagogy is based primarily on emotion. It has become a distinctly millennial parenting shtick more than anything. You aren't going to convince most homeschoolers that academics don't matter. Most school choice folks are well-off, they want their kids to go to college, they want them to be academically and professionally competitive.