If the issues of food insecurity or mass transportation delays or navigating the educational system with a disability don’t touch you on a daily basis, you will see it play out in the lives of kids in public school. I’m not even that involved in my kids’ schools. In a sense, enrolling my kids in public school is the absolute least I can do, the laziest action I can take, to have my eyes opened by my community. Proximity, even if proximity is all you can muster, changes you. It has changed my kids, which is exactly why they are where they are.
