Another flaw of public education

They cannot be selective. See Fleeing Katrina for Texas and a place to learn, which reports:

Texas schools get ready for temporary students … Educators statewide started scrambling Wednesday to find classroom space, supplies and teachers for the roughly 10,000 evacuee students who are expected to enroll in Texas schools during the weeks and months that it takes to rebuild New Orleans and other communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. … Houston-area schools could see the largest influx of refugee students. About 5,000 school-age children are expected to move into the Astrodome today, and thousands of other Louisiana youngsters are already settling in at Houston hotels, shelters and homes.

Now I am all for helping the refugees. I hear Catholic schools are going to squeeze in Louisiana N.O. kids, etc. And I do not begrudge refugee New Orleanians from placing theier kids in Houston public schools out of desperation. But parents with their kids in public schools in Houston will no doubt scream bloody murder, as the parent-teacher ratio gets diluted, and as some “undesirable” elements start to mix into their schools. Well, I have no pity for them. They support the public school system and are willing to sacrifice their children’s moral health by sending them there. If they are not subject to the logic of the public school system, so be it.

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10:26 pm on September 1, 2005