School should be fun.
A school should serve its neighborhood.
School should pay you to go there? Or pay you to take a month off?
School should be more like art: Unpredictable, makes its own rules.
School should be flexible enough to stop what it is doing and respond to crises like a natural disaster or, for example, Ukraine.
And yet, paradoxically, I would hope school can be a bubble where poetry and beauty live unmustered by the faux crises of political shenanigisms.
Mostly, schools should prioritize systems that will make the great-grandchildren of their students less likely to kill the great-grandchildren or their parent’s enemies.