...and vote to join the richer, whiter, better-run, higher quality Shelby County school system.
Problem is, folks in Shelby County, where the City of Memphis is located, moved to Shelby County to escape the Memphis school system, which is now attempting to export itself to the county. The residents of the county are, well, not amused.
This will end up being litigated, legislated, negotiated for several years. Lawyers will make money. Real estate values (and commercial real estate values) in Shelby County will drop, subdivisions will spring up in the surrounding counties, along with the attendant private schools, retail development, and traffic.
Home school enrollment will climb, as well it should. Tennessee's laws are friendly to families who wish to pursue that arduous option, and take OS's word for it, it is hard hard hard work. And it does cost money to do well. Ain't no free lunch, nowhere.
The top-down, utopian, race-based, federally-mandated public education system is a failure. Memphis and environs are Exhibit A, and last week's vote is an admission of the extent of the failure.
OS is so grateful his kids are grown-up. And that he didn't have to raise them relying on the public schools of Memphis.
Memphis is a wonderful city, for those with the means to live in the good parts, and school the kids privately--in other words, with the ability to insulate the family from the predations of the utopian state.
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