Problems: Now and Then

Long phone conversation with Eleanor last night. Who is back at work as a third-grade teacher in the Outlying-City-Where-All-the-Unskilled-Workers-Who-Serve-the-Affluent-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Live School District.

Where the school district is too broke to afford heating in the classrooms. (Temps have been in the 30s the last few days.)

And the Chromebooks bought a couple of years ago at a cut rate from Google – eager to get some positive PR and boost product sales – are all broken.

And there are no longer textbooks.

And the teacher’s union wonders why anyone who can afford to do so yanks their children out of the public school system.

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This photo was taken a million or so years ago back in happier times. When all we had to worry about was how we were going to juggle all our boyfriends (and in my case girlfriends) without said boyfriends (and in my case girlfriends) finding out about each other.