Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The digital divide grows wider as the almost plutocrats are educating their kids in a way that will make the kids the true plutocrats of tomorrow.

It appears that many who have become rich in today’s technical world are educating their kids at home. They have every right to do so, and if I were in their position I would certainly consider the same.

This is taking us back to the 1700s and prior centuries where the rich educated their children themselves. Well, they paid for a teacher to come live with them and educate their children. The children of the not-so-fabulously rich weren’t educated. They worked on farms or in factories. Perhaps they learned enough arithmetic to  be paid and buy staples of life.

I wish the new technical rich would donate their money to educating the children of other people. That is merely a wish, but I think it to be a good one.

So what are we to do? Our schools are failing, but experts have said so for decades. Our schools our failing, but experts have argued for decades about what to do. Our schools are failing, so the rich are educating their children like the rich did centuries ago.

Let us not be surprised if we have technical plutocrats in the year 2035.