f'd up and wonderful

Imagine the world. Now imagine all the children in the world. Now imagine those children at schools all over the world. Now imagine you spin this imaginary world, like a globe that rotates on a stand, until your finger points at the West Coast of the United States. Now imagine the view zooming in to Los Angeles, right down to street view of an elementary school in south LA. Imagine a 6 year old child walking to school with his parents to attend first grade.

That six year old child is my kiddo, to the extent that any child belongs to their parents (they don’t. We all belong to us all, or maybe we all belong to the planet, but that’s a philosophical discussion for another day). I’m going to talk about children’s education, but my experience is rather limited to this child—Lochlan. So I'm going to approach my research and discussion into the educational state of things through that lens.

I wrote this. Read more at https://fuckedupandwonderful.blogspot.com/2024/10/imagine-world.html