My takeaway from the NHJ discourse is that America continues to be unreasonably polarized between people who think the only thing that matters is the other students and the only thing that matters is funding.
Managing the school is important!
slowboring.com/p/why-i-send-…
The input is the output. Until welfare incentives make it harder to be ghetto, these places are going to stay ghetto.
Diluting the dysfunction by mixing students together and shifting the bell curve back to the right makes the schools look better but it massively disenfranchises the high-achievers.
Especially now that the DEI mobs want to scrap gifted programs bc they don’t like the enrollment demographics.
Until that conversation is had honestly, the districts are making the private school choice for the parents.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:31 PM UTC
