Melisa Harris-Perry is a political science professor at Tulane University. She is also the host of an amazingly bad MSNBC program that you have probably never seen. Recently, in a “Lean Forward” ad promoting MSNBC and statism, MHP opined on our lack of public education funding and how best to view children. Perry said “We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children”.
A private notion of children? Yes, she means what you think she means. Children are part of a collective and families are obstacles. She is insisting that we would have invested as much as we ‘should’ in public education if we didn’t look at children as private members of families. It’s one thing to make a case for public education funding, local communities do this all the time with levies, it’s quite another to declare the family unit as a hindrance to that funding.
