Meritocracy and reducing political influence in school seems fair enough. This approach is relevant as the previous blogger mentioned all schools don’t teach the same material. To expand on this, all schools don’t serve the same demographic of children, and depending on the location have the same special needs. Who better to asses the needs of their schools than administrators?
On the topic of eugenics. The argument made by Laughlin that the state has the due responsibility to minimize the reproduction of “feeble minded,”was shocking. Now this is what I call intruding of family and human rights. In the instance the person is mentally incapable to make decisions of their own the individual family should have a choice for their destiny. The reasoning behind sterilization was to have superior intellects in society was so absurd, I thought. Laughlin clearly didn’t have a conscious and having mentally challenged individuals in a society is a demonstration the world is not perfect. Excepting of diversity of all kind is important for society to advance. To have government decide on education is one thing, but to determine if you will have off-springs is not government’s place. So, I ask do you think it would have been a good idea to contunie with the practice of eugenics in the United States? and how this if at all would have improve the educational system?
