Mr. Moffett wants to force you and your kids to build character-- his way

From his letter to the editor of the C-J...

On the continuing saga of JCPS forcing various diversity measures on the population through "busing", given its substantial monopoly power...

The paper reports protests of school assignments, as a new group of eastern Jefferson County parents learned their children face long bus rides to schools not of their choosing. That the vast majority of African-American children in the West End have coped with this for over 30 years doesn't enter their minds.

Not sure about that. We can be sure, from he's written here, that most of the African-American children and parents not wanting this-- doesn't enter his mind either.

On the same day, another news story featured high honors won by a college graduate pursuing opportunities by pushing ahead over objections and obstacles. She broke out of her restrictive environment and persuaded family and friends to help her explore educational options in another city and then in Africa and Turkey....

Nice...think about what he's implying here.

I hope that a great many of the distraught parents will take a deep breath and boldly encourage their children to take advantage of the remarkable opportunity which JCPS is giving them. They are being handed "free" rides to the kind of multicultural education that others have had to struggle to find.

It ain't "free"-- in terms of time. And if they wanted that, why wouldn't they just buy less expensive housing in that part of the school district? Bottom line: Mr. Moffett is paternalistic and values community &/or Statism over individuals.