A School’s #1 Priority Must be Community, Not Education

Bernie Bleske
9 min readFeb 4, 2020
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It’s not much of an observation to note that schools are communities. Nor is it very insightful to observe that within the larger community of neighborhood, town, state, or nation, schools play an essential role in prosperity, security, and stability. Neither is it surprising to consider how powerful the community aspects of a school are to the students themselves, from their sense of belonging…