I think children mucking about in waste is unsafe. And I think the situation of having school employees in charge of a work force full of poor elementary school children is rife with the potential for abuse.
These are children who already tend to have fewer caring and competent people advocating for them. Where abuse occurs it would be likely to be worse and go unnoticed longer.
Who is talking about children mucking about in waste?
You seem to be unable to stick to the basic issue. You constantly want to repaint the issues and redefine what is being discussed. I dont know if you actually know you are doing this, and thus lying, or you are unconsciously doing this and merely delusional.
We're talking about poor children cleaning up after well-to-do children.
At least I was. I'm not any more. Not with you. I am done talking to you about it.
I am thankful that the kind of "reforms" Kingston would push and you would defend will not happen. But I am sad at the kind of reverberation which pushing this kind of misbegotten idea will have in preventing the implementation of the kinds of reforms you and I would agree with.
I hope that Republicans will stop saying this kind of thing because I don't want six more years of Democratic control of the Senate and Democrats having free rein with judicial appointments.
In another thread I'm defending the idea of homeschooling. There are many reasons to keep a child out of public schools if at all possible. It does not square that people who would shun public schools would be comfortable with the kind of things the workers at those schools could do if ordered to oversee the forced labor of elementary school students.
And that's all I have to say to you. I'm not leaving my thread. Just leaving the discussion with you because you seem indefatigable in your defense of the worst of conservatism, without any willingness to acknowledge that maybe there are other governmental freebies which should be stopped before you start forcing poor children to clean up after rich children for the privilege of being fed.
Ciao.