Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Schools either prepare kids for life or prepare them for more school, and most of them pick the wrong one.

Clint Smith (clintsmithiii), author of "How the Word Is Passed", grew up in one of these unicorn schools in New Orleans. They understood that your kid's classmates shape them just as much as their teachers do, maybe more, and cared more about Jean Gordon's mix of people than its academic rankings.

Meeting different kinds of people teaches you things you can't learn from textbooks, the kind of knowledge that actually matters when you're an adult trying to work with all kinds of people.

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