Failure to provide high-quality, public education to every child will increase the separation and segregation between the "Establishment" and non-establishment citizens.

On another thread, there is strong antipathy among the correspondents toward the educated elite: The "Ivy League" grads. If the same stratification increases between public grade school and private academies, it will do nothing but increase the animosity between classes. This is a bad thing, to increase class envy.

Thus, it is in the best interest of the ruling elite to ensure that public education will provide a clear path for the deserving student from mediocrity to excellence. Failure to provide for that path will result in the ossified stratification of Europe--a class-based society in which merit is far less importance than blood. God help us all if we begin to think that outcome is a good idea.

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