Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The reasoning on both ends is thoroughly bungled at this point — what a "good" school does or tries to accomplish is pretty poorly defined and generally misguided but this idea that a mediocre childhood should not horrify a parent is peak boot-on-face culture https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1174801530635128835 …

One might ask just how bad it would *actually* be if their child had so-so nutrition, so-so friends, so-so relationships with parents and other adults, so-so conversations with people with so-so ideas... a so-so life? Is this what parental love is supposed to look like now?

How bad does the "so-so" public school have to be before a parent gets their tribal permission slip to do something else? How much of their child's wellbeing is owed to the maintenance of status of the institutional public school?

My sincere question: Is it wrong to want the best for your children? Does a world where everyone feels compelled to seek C-grade experiences for their kids actually look better than one where every parent does the best they can to find and create better opportunities for them?

Another interpretation is that the difference between schools doesn’t matter to outcomes for the child. I think that interpretation is even more depressing - implies that school is a 6 hour/day holding tank for the child.

It implies that child development is irrelevant, that the most productive learning years of a child's life could be spent in a closet or amongst brilliant friends with zero net effect. Fundamentally unsupported.