It is incomprehensible but the 2026 eSPLOST passed with over 81% approval. Given how badly DeKalb Schools have mismanaged finances it is stunning that voters would agree to give them even more. Yet that is exactly what happened. This is a mystery.
Once school of thought holds that while everyone, tax-loving voters included, must, however begrudgingly, acknowledge that public schools are a public failure, these folks will nonetheless contend that "it's better than nothing." Unfortunately this assertion has not properly been put to the test, though we did come close during the pandemic shutdown where we saw not only what passes for public education's pedagogy but got an inkling of what our world would look like if we called this experiment a failure and move on.
It is about time we all learned the lesson public schools are teaching us.
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