| Our dumb country. Lansing elementary students will soon say goodbye to all their art, music, and gym teachers. They’re among 87 staff positions getting the ax this year. The district’s got to scrape together $6 million in savings, and what with the right-to-work law taking effect next week, teachers around the state are eager to ink new contracts.
You can thanks worship of austerity at the federal level and the important work taking place inside our ongoing experiment in the Dunning-Kruger effect, where it's believed more important to provide an oversight authority (whose work is protected from transparency) to fix failing schools than it is to prevent schools from failing in the first place, for this. We say we want children to be educated, and that this is our top priority. We say that. |
