I was sure that the distance between the individual four square meters was not the cause of my failed efforts to hold in the outer lights in the terrace area last weekend.
Positive sure.
Since the weight of the light strings questioned the integrity of the scope at every turn, I explained to my wife why she had been wrong with regard to her proposed solution. If the poles are pulled closer together, I will not repair anything, I said confidently as if my long history did not exist as a DIY bumbler. For my brain, physics was crystal clear and the only problem was the Blackiness of the Pole, for which we paid too much.
She was also certain of her math, with the difference that her calculations were correct.
I am very mistaken about small things and big things, and the challenge in the midst of all this injustice is to use the lessons in a way that creates a little more balance between self -confidence and humility. The script is always solid and steady, something like wisdom, and I want to be there.
In the end I was glad that I was wrong about the lights. But I am a little unhappy over the blind spots where I am usually firmly anchored. This is perhaps the worst of the many curses of mankind: we don't know what we do not know – and are too willing to defend this ignorance to the end.
And that is exactly what makes public order so difficult.
For example this month the organization that manages the Universal School voucher program from New Hampshire announced That a newly set up registration limit had been reached with 10,000 layers, with another 295 families being on a waiting list. Since the “Education Freedom Accounts” program had about half of these students at the beginning of the last school year (when there was still an income limit), it seems a pretty safe bet that many newcomers have been blocked beforehand because their families have earned too much money to qualify.
Governor Kelly Ayotte, who in June in June signed The draft law, which opened the freedom of education for everyone independently of income, was therefore careful with universal vouchers. In her opening speech she was she cautious Use the word “more” and not “everyone” if you refer to the expansion of Efas and possibly feel where the universal path could lead. Maybe she should have heard her belly. It seems that you are not stacked as great fiscal management to give wealthy families who send their children to private school, regardless of whether the state broke in or not.
But here I'm worried about blind spots.
I think voucher programs are here to stay. I think the public school because I knew it as a child is gone. And I think that as a state and nation we made a number of terrible mistakes in the way we pursued the “school selection”. But maybe I just don't know what I don't know.
However, what I know is that as a political advisor named Brian Stephens I never regarded it as a “monopoly” in a New York Times as a “monopoly” Story this week. I think public education as a concept is genius: a society realizes that its size is determined not only by military power, but by the level of education achieved by the citizens. From there, a perch above the wisdom pate, a long series of forward -looking heads, places a developed system of public school education for all children regardless of their personal backgrounds and circumstances. There is nothing factual in large systems, and so progress in the direction of this ideal would always be uneven and it would always be unfair. But until recently, the American people had chosen the repair and refinement of the destruction.
If that would be the entire debate-Ultimately, the system improve-it has it very similar to the terrace light situation, although it may not be cut and dried. We could have spirited conversations about what – and how quickly – systemic changes could and should be introduced, and ensure that the “public good” always remained in the center. What makes me skeptical that vouchers have ever been intended as an educational improvement is the way public schools were undermined and attacked in order to support the implementation of the implementation of the voucher programs.
For the beginning, the genius of public education here in New Hampshire is significantly undermined by the way it is financed. A graded income tax that flows directly into an educational fund that is distributed in the entire state (no “rich city, poor city” dynamics) would be much fairer than our current over -control of the property taxes. It would also not happen to dampen much of the enthusiasm for vouchers among the wealthy countries. Instead of dealing with the financing problem, critics of the public school are pushing all of their energy into the city dwellers against their own community schools. The increasing trouble about school budgets correlates directly with the increasing burden for property owners.
And that's just the beginning.
In the past, it was that a parent had a question about the appropriateness of a school teaching plan or a library book, he contacted the teacher or headmaster and hopefully set up a civilian meeting. Now everything is first outlined as a broad conspiracy with the left wing, with the charges on social media or at board meetings, in which the conviction for resolution is preferred. A handful of the most righteous legislators who certainly have more important things that you have to worry about encourage this narrative and push Book bansPresent Library privacy Rollbacks and any number of “Parental rights” Measures that promise much more darkness than sunshine.
What I think is, it feels like all these fully pork, apparently separate attacks at public schools An-von Curriculum Pearl coupling to the full disinformation of the public health-sind part of the package of the voucher. The processed outrage is the lubricant for a privatization effort, which is quickly released as a money gripper in gentle times. And the Times story mentioned above, which the one in which a political advisor says “the monopoly is over” – that helps to make concern in great relief.
“School systems in Orlando, Newark, Memphis and dozens of other cities and cities,” writes journalist Dana Goldstein, “advisors hired the aggressively parents to convince them to register their children at local public schools.
“Brian J. Stephens has built up a business in this new reality,” continues the story. “Mr. Stephens, a political consultant based in Memphis, leads Caissa K12, a consulting company for public school districts with the Sagling 'Recruit student'. Caissa K12 has decreased with over 100 district customers.”
For as many things as human society, the basic structure of public education has done something right. I just never noticed how vulnerable our schools were for the attack of the American greed, where a public good is only so advantageous that it has the potential to become a big business.
Man, another blind spot.