Will you discuss public schools with me?

As you probably know there is a lot of attention on education the last couple of weeks, because of the release of the movie,Waiting for Superman and the $100 million donation Mark Zuckerberg made to Newark city schools.

If the money greatly improves the system, will that be an argument to put more money into public schools? Possibly higher taxes?

Will it prove the people against putting money into public education simply don’t care about public education. That it is not that they think it is unfixable, or that the government screws everything up, but that they just don’t care to help other peoples children? I admit my own bias on this, and I think those same people don’t understand how it affects society as a whole. Many have said to me things like, “nothing will help those kids.”

Are you optimistic a real change will happen in cities like Newark?

I’m interested in any other ideas or opinions on the topic.