I don't understand...why is test score of a 3rd grader nationally significant but

[HereSince1628]

the quality of drinking water of a 7 month old in a suburb of a major American city just a local matter?

Are we really so divided by arbitrary jurisdictional boundaries that we can't see a local problem as the harbinger of a national danger?

Help me out here. I've got some gray hair on my temples so I'm obviously cognitively compromised.

[Jim__]

1. Money.

If "they" - say, the 1% - can convince us that pubic schools don't work, they can get us to switch to private schools and we pay them for our education - an education that we will then be assured is working beyond our wildest dreams.

Lower quality drinking water will become an important issue when "they" are ready to switch us to a privatized water supply. At that time, the Flint debacle will probably be broadcast to us as proof that the government can't be trusted to supply us with clean water.

[underpants]

2. Traditional private schools will train management - public schools will train worker bees

[underpants]

3. Fill me in. Test scores of a 3rd grader? N/t

[onecaliberal]

4. Money money and money.