It’s taken longer than retail, entertainment, health care and other industries, but there can be little doubt the forces of disruption have come at last for American public education.
I’ll be in Albuquerque later this month at the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting to discuss this in depth; to get the conversation started:
For generations, where you lived determined where you were educated, mostly in district-run public schools a short ride away in a yellow school bus. Your parents likely weighed the quality of local schools when deciding where to move or buy a house. But after that, the relationship was unremarkable and sewn with minimal thought into the fabric of most families’ lives.
Blame Covid, culture war and the decline in confidence in American institutions at large, but the relationship between parents and their children’s schools has been called into question to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago.
