Thank you for sharing! While her tone is snarky, she’s a great writer, and I agree with her overall point. There is vast inequality in this country, and the gap is widening by the minute. It is obscene, the difference in the educational experience of a top private school vs. a bottom public. Or even a middle of the pack public.
That said, we would need a revolution in education to fix the inequality there. I have never understood why education is funded by property taxes. Aren’t all children equally valuable? If I could wave a magic wand, I would have schools funded equally (per student) – all with the same resources. I would increase salaries so the teaching profession attracted the best and brightest. I would have public schools adopt some of the best practices (which aren’t all expensive) of the private schools. This would not eliminate private schools, and I don’t think they should be abolished. But it might close, a bit, the gulf between the haves and have nots.
Climbing down off my soapbox now 