Source: blogs.forbes.com --- Sunday, September 27, 2015
The Los Angeles Dodgers selected Highland Park High School pitcher Clayton Kershaw with the 7 th pick in the 2006 Major League Baseball draft. It turns out to have been a very wise decision. Kershaw has since won 3 Cy Young awards, an MVP in 2014, plus he’s regularly had his team competitive. So long as Kershaw remains healthy, the Dodgers will annually be in any discussion of the League’s championship contenders. What’s less well known is what Kershaw did right after being drafted. Awarded with a $2.3 million signing bonus, Molly Knight reports in her 2015 book The Best Team Money Can Buy that Kershaw almost immediately wrote “a half dozen checks to the people his mother had to borrow from so they could afford to stay in the Highland Park school district.” Highland Park is one of the richest locales Dallas, and as Kershaw told Knight, his mother “took on some pretty serious debt” so that he could attend public school there. Since owning a house in Highland Park was a non-starter for someone of her limited means, Kershaw’s mother rented so that her son could attend the district’s well-regarded schools. Kershaw’s story is first a reminder that contrary to the popular conservative/libertarian narrative about kids “stuck in failing schools,” there is choice. Sometimes parents make substantial economic sacrifices meant to improve educational choice and opportunity for their children. What this also tells us is that opposite popular p ...
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