gavra_at_work:
Who has the crystal ball to see whether “It’s expected that the child won’t work anyways”?
How will this child who society has raised it’s nose to and determined that they are “expected that they won’t work anyways” live when he grows up?
The hashkafic outlook you present is precisely what has gotten the Mosdos HaChinuch into the current financial mess to begin with. There are some major Jewish philanthrophists who will NEVER pay anything above what the school’s bills for tuition, to any Jewish school. The reason is because of the treatment their parents received at the hands of the tuition commitee members, and the “expectation, they will never succeed anyways” society ingrained into them.
There is a Din and a Dayan for those who use the faulty crystal ball approach you speak so highly about.