This video comes as a warning about how much education is suffering in our country. It should be an alert for all of us to act to keep education and our children learning. This news also follows my blog from February 15, 2026: “Learn and when you learn, teach.”

This comes from not considering education as a priority.  Declining enrollment does not mean that young people and their parents are not interested in higher education, but that education has become an expensive privilege they can’t afford. Massachusetts is supposed to be an intellectual state, with more than 120 schools, including colleges and universities, mainly in the Boston and Worcester areas, and more than 250 in New England. Yet, private colleges are out of reach for most, and public colleges remain expensive for the middle and working classes.

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