MISLEDING
What do you think when you read this lede from the Washington Post?
Some 65 million girls worldwide are kept out of school, increasing the risks that they will suffer from extreme poverty, die in childbirth or from AIDS and passing those dangers from generation to generation, the U.N. children’s fund said Thursday.
That females are being denied an education becasue of their gender, right? Well, it’s not quite so simple. Further down in the article, we learn that 121 million children are not in school. So, some 56 million boys are out, too. I guess that wasn’t quite as heart-wrenching.
BTW, the article doesn’t mention homeschooling. For all we know, our kids could be included in those 121 million.