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In bigger cities, where the graduation rate for certain demographics is around 20-40%, a disengaged student in an impoverished household might either enter the workforce early or, just as prudently from a fiscal standpoint, join a gang. That having been said, that legislator did a good job concise continually re-stating his key argument: the same way W. "beat" Ann Richards in his first debates by re-iterating "lower taxes, smaller government and better schools;" and the two times he spoke to the child he handled it perfectly. I happen to think it's extremely trite to rhetorically ventriloquize a child to confront adults: you're probably prematurely indoctrinating them to views without a rational framework; and conditioning them to confront and mistrust authority - which is actually doubly damaging example for minority children.
This. Or when they use kids in political ads to say words scripted by adults. Of course, the kid got fawning media coverage and was treated as an independent thinker.
