[Andre_Wanglin]

How is spending twice as long at school correcting a deficiency? Are you sure you understand what a deficiency is? If spending twice as long at school can improve the results of the poor black students in this study, why shouldn't it do the same for white students? If it does, what happens to the achievement gap? How is this not a reasonable question? And do you really think being provided free medical care, dental care, mental health care, etc. is not qualitatively different than receiving the same from the fruit of the parents' labor?

[lg]

i don’t think taxpayer provided medical etc care is any different than getting it from parents’ employer-provided (tax-code-subsidized) insurance or from inherited wealth from generations ago. in all cases it’s manna from heaven as far as young kids know. is there some problem with european or canadian children who get these things from a single-payer government scheme?