Overnight News: Is “Union Jack privilege” the best head-start of all?

There is privilege in being born an American, granted, and, as discussed, there is great privilege in being born a native speaker of English. And I am persistently aware of the privilege that accrues to people lucky enough to be educated under the Union Jack.

That American public school education sucks is suddenly news, but, alas, it is not new. Schooling is now awful and racist, where before it was just awful – “progressively” so since the 1880s, when the de facto Jesuit curriculum was supplanted by various flavors of social engineering, mainly Marxist in origin.

Union Jack privilege owes to the inertia of ineptitude: Henry the Eighth swiped the Church of Rome in England, then operated it as if nothing but the signage had changed. For centuries Great Britain built wonderful Jesuitical schools everywhere it went – fortuitously ditching the Jesuits but keeping the curriculum unchanged.

In consequence, the children of the victims of “the colonizers” are the best-educated ordinary people on Earth. They are deeply and widely read, and they are adept at reason because they did a lot of demanding homework – knowing that their work would be checked and challenged.

The “privilege” granted freely to schoolchildren all over the world, wherever the Union Jack flies, costs ten grand or more a year in the U.S. – and you’re more likely to find it at Presbyterian or Lutheran schools than in Catholic parishes, by now.

Worth grailing for, regardless: That kind of education – the kind Loyola wanted for everyone – is an inestimable head-start in life.

In other news:

Housing Wire: Mortgage rates continue their fall, to 2.93%.

Redfin.com: More Than 31% of Homebuyers Are Looking to Move to Another Metro, With Pandemic-Driven Migration Pushing Up Prices in Popular Destinations. Good lord, give it a rest! Why did the pandemic sell so many guns?

Business Insider: Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they’ll run out of people to employ, according to a new report.

Joel Kotkin: The Killing of Kern County.

City Journal: The Golden State’s Progressive Anti-Housing Warriors: Left-wing interest groups are often the fiercest supporters of regulations that make California housing so expensive.