What Is The Supposed Goal Of Public Schools?

Maybe we should just admit that for many, it's day care.

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: