Jon Sanders has an excellent post over at Right Angles
(the Triangle blog) on Senator Rand’s proposed legislation to require
college students to mentor and tutor a public school-age child.
According to WRAL:
“Sen.
Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, named the proposed community service program
in memory of two college students who were shot to death earlier this
year ? Eve Carson, the student body president at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Abhijit Mahato, a Duke University
graduate student.”
The connection between this program and
the murders of Carson and Mahato is a bit strained (to say the
least). Something about the individuals charged with the murders
being high school drop-outs, and if college students tutored kids
somehow it would reduce the number of drop-outs. Of course, that
still doesn’t connect the dots, so let me help with some sort of
logic. Therefore, if there were fewer drop-outs, there would be
fewer murders of college students.
I guess it is kind of like the butterfly effect.
