Emergency Planning Necessary?

Can you ever find an essay that isn't written by an ultra-libertarian that you agree with? It would lend a bit more credibility to what you have to say if you just weren't sitting here posting Libertarian agenda articles all day and actually had some kind of mainstream backing at least once in a while. I could really give a fuck what the Mises Institute has to say about anything (as much as I care what the Christian Collation has to say), and this one writer who you are in love with is typically wrong on multiple points in every essay that you present here, he never looks at the full picture.


For example, in this specific instance, choice is pretty silly to talk about. Let's say that the school really did feel that if the kids went out into the streets, there would be hundreds of deaths. Because these are minors, the school district/state would never be able to recover from that kind of liability exposure. We're talking millions of dollars in civil suits for every single child dead from a state that already is something like 49th in education.

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Second, there is a big difference between dying at the hands of the Plan and dying because of your own bad choices. It is a matter of who bears the responsibility. When you die because of the decisions of the officials, your blood is on their hands.

the way the legal system works, minors aren't afforded choices, so if they were allowed to leave, that would have been a choice of the school officials and not the children.

Now, did the school district make wrong options? Perhaps. Would hundreds of kids died if they were let go? I dunno, I live in Arizona, I don't know jack shit about tornadoes. But both of those ideas are not very relevant: the school district needs to make sure to protect itself.

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Let me ask you this, though: since school attendance (short of homeschooling and private schools) is mandatory, who is liable for the safety of children when the state requires children to be there? The whole point of a minor system (or part of it anyway) is that children don't know how to make the right decisions.

So, that being the case, what is the school to do in that situation?

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

Mandatory attendence itself is the problem.

Then he should have argued that in the article. There is no way to absolve the school district from massive liability issues without taking away mandatory school attendance.

They could have sent everyone home, sure. But what if it's in a poor community where not a lot of people have cars and there's no way to scramble buses? What if they can't afford the higher insurance premiums that I'm sure come with having no emergency planning?

There are too many questions left unanswered in the article when, really, the only point that he had and didn't even address is that kids shouldn't be required to go to school or, as I would almost bet he feels, that the government should provide no education at all, even by choice.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.