Something significant happened and I'm not sure why. And kind of laughing at how this is now significant.
Our Walmart opened it's other door for entry and exit. Seven months that door has been closed and all of a sudden, there it is open like it was never closed. The aisles were also packed with stuff, almost like all those Chinese ships off the coast have been unloaded.
As for public schools, I think our schools are pretty good and I have no real complaints about them for our kids. But then I live in a fairly conservative area that allows rifle teams in the schools so not sure if that says anything for the majority of public schools.
I think the more rural they are, the better the education they are going to get, the more urban, the worse they are going to get. I hear a lot of stories and see a lot of evidence to support the latter at least.