Public Education Is (Mostly) Unabashedly Day Care

Maybe we should just admit this.

In reality, public education exists to prop up the housing market, I.e. “I need to get into this neighborhood for my kids,” and as we saw during COVID, it’s fundamentally a place of day care for two-income families (or one-income families), with an element of providing meals. At this point, I am not sure it is much more than that. I have a limited under…