In and of itself, it's a
decent time - waster that hypothesizes a believable
future of pet cloning (no more having to teach your
children about death when Sparky buys the farm) and pro-life-type protests
for the genetics industry.
Basic mathematical skills are a necessity in Ghana
for any sort of work besides manual labour, so helping
children tackle even basic concepts can help them find
decent work in the
future.
But when they expect the state to educate their
children at public expense, the public has a right to know whether those
children are learning anything (no, not whether Johnny and Mary are learning, but whether the
children of Waco — or Scarsdale — are learning); whether taxpayers are getting a
decent ROI from the schools they're paying
for; and whether their community, their state, their society will be economically competitive and civically whole in the
future as a result of an adequately educated populace.