The link below will take you to a story about a single mother who sent her children to a better, safer school by using her father's address for enrollment. She was convicted of a few felonies, 'grand theft'. She is black, and the school she sent her girls to is pretty 'white bread'. Being suspicious, the school system hired a private investigator to track the kids and see if they actually lived in the district, etc.
Please read and respond to it incorporating the principles of economics; scarcity, opportunity costs and competition. Also, address the whole racism issue, AND the concept of compulsory public education and its 'free' distribution.
Right.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/01/26/938788/-Parenting-While-Black:-Ohio-Woman-Jailed-for-Stealing-an-Education-
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Share your unique economics experiences. What did you have to give up to gain that which at the moment seemed so necessary to you? Imperfect information spanked you and now diminishing marginal utility smacks you upside the head, eh?