Low test scores, crime, a dwindling student population and a dysfunctional school board are just some of the critical issues that plague Denver Public Schools.
So we were surprised to see at-large school board candidate Kwame Spearman advocating in a Denver Post commentary for the school board to get into the housing development business and subsidize construction of teacher housing.
Schools are facing closures to cut costs and Spearman wants educators to become developers?
Good intentions aside, it’s not the responsibility of taxpayers or any employer to provide housing to capable adults with college degrees and full-time jobs.
We all don’t get to live where we want to. Some of us who live in the real world must commute.
Elsewhere in the Denver Post, readers learned that since classes began last week, Denver Public Schools has had to release students from classes early on several days because 15 schools still do not have air conditioning.
This should be a priority for the school board, not operating employee housing. Especially since those proposing it aren’t even sure who would even qualify, or whether “an educator need to presently be employed to live in the housing.”
Bidenomics has spiked the price of housing and mortgages nationwide. The solution is not more government spending and regulations, but for bureaucrats to release the chokehold around the neck of the free market and lower taxes.
And the business of public schools need to stay focused on their mission of education.