As a parent, education policy matters more to me than any other governmental issue. Immigration, DEI, and the price of eggs are nice, but Ian’s IEP meetings kept me up at night. Steve and I would hash out school issues every night after the kids went to sleep: Did Jonah’s bio teacher just get fired? Should we send him to a Catholic high school because he’s getting lost in the crowd? Should we hire a tutor for English? 

We sold our house and moved to another town to give our kids access to better schools. We took out a home equity loan to pay for college. We spent our evenings driving our kids to enrichment activities. In a parking lot an hour from home, we sat in the car to keep warm during Jonah’s soccer matches in November. 

Why did we do all this work? Because schools alone aren’t enough to raise children in the modern world.

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