This blog post touches on a lot of topics. I'm laying in bed and groggy, so I'm just going to highlight one thing: >They’re lucky if they have air conditioning

This blog post touches on a lot of topics. I'm laying in bed and groggy, so I'm just going to highlight one thing: >They’re lucky if they have air conditioning. LKY: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency." You can't think properly if you're hot. This isn't my opinion, it's measurable. E.g. https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijerph/ijerph-18-07698/article_deploy/ijerph-18-07698-v2.pdf?version=1627009456 https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijerph/ijerph-18-07698/art... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02656736.2017.1345013 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02656736.2017.13... "Findings indicate that academic achievement is linked to building condition mediated by the social climate and student attendance. The model accounted for 70 percent of the variance in the outcome measures." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494416300287 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02724... Teaching is complicated. Politics is complicated. Parent-school interactions are very complicated. Air conditioning, by comparison, is drop-dead simple. The inability of school districts to do the simplest and most obvious thing to address the problem underscores the degree to which meaningful information is driven out of the education dialogue by pet-issue squabbling.