Public school districts across the United States are disbursed funds from the state governments for children attending school, and funds are withheld for those who are absent. The hundreds or thousands of paranoid extremist parents who kept their children home from school on right-wing hysteria surrounding President Barack Obama’s speech urging kids to “stay in school and excel” should be sent a bill by the school districts of America. Sort of a “single payer” plan, to use a similarly demonized health-care analogy.
This article appears in Sep 17-24, 2009.