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 understanding of public education, as I don’t have kids of my own, but I was a Teach for America (read: potential white savior) teacher for a few years about 18 years ago.
I also realize that we ideologized all the socially-relevant jobs of late, including teachers.
Now look at this Jessica Grose column.
There’s a lot of crazy sh*t in there about education, but let me give you a few:
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