There is such a vicious doom loop that is happening with childcare and educational services now. As there are fewer kids in the area, there is simply less demand and political will for providing them, and in any case it’s less efficient to provide that level of service for fewer kids. And potential parents know that - it’s obviously not the single deciding factor in whether to have kids or not, but it’s another straw on the camel’s back.
i feel like a jolt to the system would be banning private and home schooling. like fuck it, get your kids back in there, and if you don’t like the quality, invest some effing time and/or resources. the private and public school bifurcation is repulsive. and so are like homeschool jesus camps. i sympathize with the people trying to do it on their own to do something better than the public option in areas where the schools are fucked, but that’s not a fix. and education is a community resource that we all should be invested in and accountable to, like health.
of course, none of this is going to happen, because Fancy Toffworthy IV will receive the western canon at 14 to prepare him for his JD at Harvard and then the 501c4 industry advocacy circuit between favorable administrations where he gets a job as special counsel to the white house king.
There is such a vicious doom loop that is happening with childcare and educational services now. As there are fewer kids in the area, there is simply less demand and political will for providing them, and in any case it’s less efficient to provide that level of service for fewer kids. And potential parents know that - it’s obviously not the single deciding factor in whether to have kids or not, but it’s another straw on the camel’s back.
i feel like a jolt to the system would be banning private and home schooling. like fuck it, get your kids back in there, and if you don’t like the quality, invest some effing time and/or resources. the private and public school bifurcation is repulsive. and so are like homeschool jesus camps. i sympathize with the people trying to do it on their own to do something better than the public option in areas where the schools are fucked, but that’s not a fix. and education is a community resource that we all should be invested in and accountable to, like health.
of course, none of this is going to happen, because Fancy Toffworthy IV will receive the western canon at 14 to prepare him for his JD at Harvard and then the 501c4 industry advocacy circuit between favorable administrations where he gets a job as special counsel to the white house king.