12/12/2025
With all the talk about school choice, what do you think the negligent parents will do?
There's a lot of discussion about parents choice, parents choice, parents choice...
In reality, a lot of "parents" make the choice not to be parents. Not to participate in their child's school work or life at all, not to be on top of things, not to make sure they're clothed and fed and ready for the world ahead of them.
A large number of children in our area have one or no parents.
That's the reality I see.
Ask any adult that grew up without a parent if they felt they had an advantage as a child.
In a perfect world, a community where every single parent is tucking their children in to bed at night and waking up joyous sounds splendid. School choice is a great idea if we all sit down and make that conscious choice... Do you really think that's happening with every child in your kid's school?
We don't want to think about it but the reality is that there's a kid in most classes who will sleep on a floor tonight, go hungry, or just plain feel like they amount to nothing because of the very people expected to bring them up and give them opportunity.
There will likely even be kids sleeping on the streets and in the woods across NW Florida in the cold tonight.
Now I understand hardship can put good families in a bind, but I'm talking about the children whose parents simply don't care to make a choice?
Is an American Dream really attainable for them?
We should always advocate for our own children, but lest we forget to root for the one's around them, too.
