Who Knows Best? 14 Year Old Mother or Government?

Rush shared a speech or a soundbyte or something from a talk on Feb 1. (I missed his show today and am reading the transcript on his website.)

We don't know what this woman was asked, only what she answered (but Rush is linking it to the food Nazis who inspected and then took away a 4-year old girl's home packed lunch, so perhaps it had something to do with why there are food inspectors in schools.

Listen to Debbie Squires on February 1st in Lansing, Michigan, the state capital. She is, again, the associate director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association talking about education, and she had this back-and-forth with a member of the Michigan legislature.

SQUIRES: You know, educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That's not necessarily true of an individual resident. I'm not saying they don't want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint.

MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE: Wow, parents don't know what's best for their child?

SQUIRES: I said they may want what's best for their child. They may not know.

RUSH: Debbie Squires: Parents don't know what's best for their child. That's why we have to do it in the schools. That's why we have to be in charge of kids in the schools, because parents don't know what's best.

Now, on the one hand, parents should not be dictated to by schools. But when you say that, you're thinking of normal parents. A married couple and their children, both graduated from highschool and maybe even college, both with good jobs, both who were raised to have manners and morals and know how to instill them in their children.

But what kind of parent do we have today? A growing number of them, over at least a couple of generations, were 14 or 15 when they had kids, never graduated high school, work in dead-end jobs and are on welfare to make ends meet.

Do those people know how to raise children properly? (And no, I'm not harping primarily on minority families here. While they lead the percentage of unmarried moms, white girls in the US have the fastest increasing rate of unwed mothership, and it doesn't matter what color your skin is, if you haven't graduated from high school because you got pregnant chances are good you don't know how to live your own life, let along raising a child.)