This is definitely a good idea: " Any revitalization of rural America must include deconsolidating its schools, breaking up the big education factories in favor of small academies in which each student matters. "
Totally agreed, but it will be damn expensive to run all those small schools and those areas are also the stronghold of no tax, no government populism. It self-perpetuates.
Well, I think a model could be arrived that minus the government. And I spend enough time upstate to know there is less objection to local taxation, the use of which can be more closely monitored by those who pay the taxes. We seem nowadays to automatically think that certain things, of they are to be done at all, must be done by government. Which is one reason why I am working on a piece for The Inquire about mutual aid. The left used to be more imaginative and less authoritarian.
Totally agreed, but it will be damn expensive to run all those small schools and those areas are also the stronghold of no tax, no government populism. It self-perpetuates.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think a model could be arrived that minus the government. And I spend enough time upstate to know there is less objection to local taxation, the use of which can be more closely monitored by those who pay the taxes. We seem nowadays to automatically think that certain things, of they are to be done at all, must be done by government. Which is one reason why I am working on a piece for The Inquire about mutual aid. The left used to be more imaginative and less authoritarian.
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