Mechele Dickerson

Most lower and middle income kids in this country are educated in a public school somewhere.

If they are in a rural area, there are no such things as choice options.

There are no charters.

Right.

And some parents are doing that.

But as we saw during COVID, exactly, parents were like, oh, my goodness, we love our school teachers.

Boy, can we get these children back?

Right.

And so it's great to say homes, well, you know, people need to homeschool.

Most parents need two incomes in order to survive.

So that's just not a thing.

So one of the things I argue, and I know some of the things I propose in the book are quite radical, but we need to look at the public school buildings and ask ourselves, why are they so underutilized?

How can we use them to do more?

So we know that there are educational gaps between lower and middle income children and lower rich and rich children.

What can we do with the public school system to try to close those gaps?

One of the things that we do now is we still treat the public school calendar as if we're an agrarian economy.

So for three months of the summer,

So you have children just there in the phrases used as a summer slide.

If you're rich or lower rich, you can put your kids in these camps and robotic camps and you can have them go to the summer high school camps on college campuses.

Well, that's lovely.