Some schools are doing very nicely, thank you. Or, like the schools in Kalkaska, they are looking for radical ways to save money. In the US local taxes and state aid pay 40 per cent of the education budget. This means that schools in low-income districts are penalized. In Illinois, one such district argued that it could never raise sufficient funds and voted simply to shut down its eight schools.
Questions Never stop asking unanswerable questions.
Let a thousand powers loom, a thousand gadflies bite, a thousand micro-climates flow. The periphery is beautiful, small is reliable. Small may be trusted, cherished, nourished. They are not inherently destructive, nor embarassingly irrelevant. Schools are good places, though not the only good places, on earth to be.