Kamala Harris's bill is perhaps less interesting than the unhinged reaction it immediately provoked from the left. jonathanchait writes
Kamala Harris plots to exploit low-income children by giving their schools money for more enrichment. Photo: Aric Crabb/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images One reason poor children learn and retain less than affluent children is that they get less support outside school.
What’s wrong with funding programs to increase enrichment for low-income students? O’Connor explains that the real problem is that working-class parents have to spend too many hours at work, and designing school schedules to accommodate their needs would “accelerate the already existing neoliberal response.” The real solution is to redesign working life so that parents don’t need schools to do anything for their kids after 3:15 p.m.
Harris’s plan is not only designed to provide child care, but to provide actual enrichment for kids — physical activity, reading, tutoring, and other beneficial activities that affluent parents can pay for through camps, private programs, babysitters, and tutors. This objective is also part of what rankles Harris’s critics. Burneko sneers at the goal of “wrangling and suppressing the emergent anarchism of 30 little kids into a job-saving standardized test results curve.
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