Laura McKenna, with a clickbaity headline at NJ Education Report:
If I had a wishlist for a streamlined school system, it would include the prioritization of academics over fad curriculum, a commitment to equity, efficiency of administration, and improved teacher education. A return to basics, if you will.
I want kids to go to a building where they read books for seven hours a day and talk about those books with people, who are hundred percent in love with books and ideas. Kids who have trouble reading would get extra help. And then everybody would go home.
Methinks McKenna longs for a yesterday that didn’t exist. In many ways, schools are more emblematic of the qualities she supposes have been forgotten, or perhaps more to her thinking, extirpated.