Andrew’s been on this child advocate thing for a while. It’s natural, because he’s a teacher. He went to a conference where they had a dynamic representative of child advocacy speak, which fired him up. We are also fortunate that Children NOW is headquartered near here. We were able to get a man in the know. We also had a representative from the Santa Clara Unified school district, who is a colleague of Andrew’s.

One of the difficulties in having a subject that Andrew is passionate about is his tendency to talk over the guests. That was the case for this episode. His colleague, Joy, had to work to be heard, since Andrew would often steal the words from her mouth. There was a lot of information, and it reminds me how complex both society and the economy are. Spending money on children’s education and health now means they cost society less as productive adults.