I take my clients to the public library all the time. They have stuff to do and things they might want to learn. Our local library offers children’s events like safe trick or treat, dress up days, reading to dogs, giving public info and sessions on how to clean Up your Cori (which will help improve underemployed peoples employment rate). Like, kids are in school all day, they don’t want to go back to school once out to do the work. Also many libraries offer and provide technology schools can’t afford. Color printing, copying, laptop usage, often for free or very low cost. White men are so arrogant. He does think those people are nobodies.
PLUS! The more funding put into public libraries, the more services they can offer. For example, those above. Not to mention adult literacy programs, summer reading programs (summer being the WORST time for low income students because they’re often excluded from academic enrichment during those months and we know for a fact that summer is when the most information is lost by students, broadly), tech programs, research skill development programs, resume workshops, job skill development, etc
Beyond that, libraries have historically been utilized for larger community events that schools can’t afford or aren’t large enough to host (not to speak of the tweet-mentioned breadth of audience as compared to public schools)
