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Fixed buildings make less sense in rapidly declining rural Iowa. Advances in virtual learning have rendered them obsolete. Rather than maintaining very expensive, obsolete, school buildings, assign laptop computers to students. Modern 5G systems make this approach very affordable.

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Excellent piece. Thank you!

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What’s next on the agenda to privatize? This is all quite puzzling. Thanks for keeping this on the front burner.

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Great column!

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Thank you, Cheryl. The Governor and her cronies are damaging the education system in Iowa taking her cues from the heartless Governor of Texas.

Michael Dargan ,from the comments ,has an interesting perspective with one point that popped out to me is mass school shooting casualties would be virtually eliminated. Especially in light of Republicans push to bring more guns into the schools! Thank you, Michael D.,for thinking outside the box.

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