Wednesday November 30, 2022; 12:30 PM EST
- I hear that my high school might call tonight and ask for money. I hear that they want my graduating class to endow a scholarship to the tune of $325,000 on the special occasion of having graduated such a large round number of decades ago. Maybe there are 200 of us still living, so maybe they'd be happy to gather up an average of $1600 a phone call, I don't know. I don't often write checks with that many digits after the dollar sign. But I taught at one public university or other for more than forty years, and I like that mission, and I'm disinclined to send money to a private school now. We're all in this together, or we should be.#