Sweet Jesus - if not for the Pennsylvania, I was certain this letter was from my wife. The only difference is that her niece is only 19.

People who don’t understand the Southern Strategy and the result it had of effectively switching the demographics of the two political parties are in my top five pet peeves. Right next to people who drive in the left lane without passing, and those who don’t leash their dogs.

Or at least they’re under the impression that they do because of their hilariously inflated journalistic egos.

I would pay to attend a Breitbart-Jezebel mixer.

The city I live in has three elementary schools. We’re in a pretty white part of the country, so every school has a very large majority white students. But of the three, the lowest performing school (probably in large part because the poorest neighborhoods go there) is also the most diverse. Most people want to get…

My dad is as conservative as it gets, but his one progressive value is his views on education segregation.

I’ll bring sangria.

Ok, I’m totally breaking in and making this my evil feminist lair. Who’s with me?

The biggest problem with US public schools isn’t “where should I send my kids?” That’s fairly unimportant in the grand scheme of things. The biggest problem is “where should I live and therefore support the public school with my property taxes?” Schools in poor neighborhoods really can only go so far because they’ll…

The issue of school choice is one of those frustrating and complicated areas where it’s entirely possible to see each side of the issue for parents who live in areas with lower-performing, more segregated schools. If the school is genuinely unsafe or poor-performing, I can absolutely understand why even progressive,…

I went to a high school that was great with diversity and I’m grateful for that. But what is interesting about my county (Montgomery County MD) is that we are a very wealthy county, yet there is this stark inequality between the wealthy Western parts (this area includes Potomac and Bethesda), and the poorer Eastern…

I’d go around makin’ it rain to ALL the institutions in exchange for naming rights ;)

This sounds like the smart and right choice. School isn’t just about grades...it’s really where you are given the space to learn how to human without your parents around.

Starring for having a museum wing named after your in your dreams.

We’re planning to send our kids to public school. We both went to public schools, and obtained terminal degrees in our field. Having parents who understand, appreciate and encourage education is far more important than having a private school.

We don’t have kids yet but this is something that has crossed my mind. I went to Catholic school, husband went to public school (both are publicly funded in Ontario). I loved my on-the-small-side (less than 700) high school and was fine with my uniform (pants and golf shirts. Very exciting). But public schools are…

Or we could divorce the funding of schools from the property values of where they are located. It makes no sense that School A, enrollment 100 students, receives more money than School B, enrollment 100, just because they happen to be 15 miles (or less) away from each other. Ashleigh and Carolyyn and Aiden aren't more…

We sent our (white) kid to public school while most of our friends sent theirs to private for the very reason that we wanted our kid to see all kinds of people, not just privileged white kids. We don’t live in the US, but we live in a very economically (and to a lesser extent, racially) segregated region of a foreign…