I am close to two families with children in the SF public school system. One family has a 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl. The other family has an 11-year-ol

I am close to two families with children in the SF public school system. One family has a 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl. The other family has an 11-year-old boy. SF schools went to all-remote education starting in March 2020 and by the end of the 2020-2021 school year, did not yet return for in-person instruction. The effect on children's education has been devastating. [0] The teacher's union refused to entertain in-person teaching even though SF has reportedly reached herd immunity as of May 2021. Negotiations have yielded almost no progress and well-meaning high-earning parents dedicated to the public school system have been stymied despite organizing as a group. [1] As a former college professor, I understand low wages are a problem for most teachers. Even as a tenure-track professor, my salary in 2009 was less than 50% of what I was (and am) able to command as a front-end developer in the Bay Area. Teaching K-12 in public schools in the US is difficult. There are nigh insurmountable problems which, in my opinion, are the product of so few financial resources dedicated to the project of educating children in the US. The behavioral problems less-endowed schools encounter among their students is an outgrowth of poor funding and poverty economics. Public school education in wealthy communities (famously Stuyvesant High School [2]) is a different story altogether. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/opinion/remote-learning-failure.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/opinion/remote-learning-f... [1] https://decreasingthedistance.org https://decreasingthedistance.org [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School