School Isn’t Uber And Never Should Be
School Systems in Crisis by Shanna Peeples for Startup Grind
My dad was an oil and gas equipment salesman for most of his life. He raised the four of us in a refinery town where the town’s fortunes rose and fell with oil and gas prices.
Draining Public Money
Growing up in a boom/bust cycle imprinted itself on me, giving me a visceral sense of capitalism and business before I could intellectually understand ideas like profit/loss and return on investment, or fixed and variable costs.
So when I see yet another argument for draining public money from public schools, I feel like I’m standing in the middle of the boarded-up Main Street of my home town. All that looked so solid when I lived there decades ago is dust and plywood now.
Except my high school. My high school looks the same and is still vibrant. That’s what comes of investing in a public good.
No one who grew up there ever heard any wooly-headed liberal phraseology like “public good,” mind you. A billboard with the John Birch Society’s message to “Get the U.S. Out of the GODLESS U.N!” greeted drivers on their…
