An Addendum To A Thought From An Empty Head, About Improving Birth Rates.

Improving the “Breeding Stock”. (An Addendum to a previous rant on “How to bolster the birth rate.")

It’s an old wives tale that it takes a village to raise a child. So rather than focusing on improving schools ratings with things like NAPLAN. (Australia’s National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy.)

Efforts to boost productivity would be better suited being targeted at individuals, rather than areas to take into account anomalies caused by circumstance. It’s foreseeable that starter homes in less privileged areas will produce more offspring, however as intellect is hereditary those children tested to be above average should be removed from the schools in less privileged areas and sent to better funded facilities designed to better capitalise on improving their capabilities. With spots allocated to children based on capability rather than parent’s efforts to fund their children’s education.

I would propose there being 3 tiers of schooling offered. With 1 tier offering a gifted program for future leaders with not less than 1 standard deviation above average intellect. The second tier would accommodate children with average within 1 deviation. The third tier would offer supervised play areas where the children could just finger paint all day. Obviously the first tier would be the better funded of the three, with the average tier having low funding with the third tier being economically funded by parents.

But why?
The first tier students would go on to university/trades, the second tier going into menial labour and the third tier being solely funded by their parents.

Another point to make is that by off loading the cost of care for disabled children to their parents, reduces welfare spending and improves the Government’s bottom line. Also it encourages would be parents not to have nonviable children.

RE: An Addendum To A Thought From An Empty Head, About Improving Birth Rates.