There have been heartening instances where chartering enabled a community —
threatened by a consolidation effort — to maintain a local school, preserving the community and its heritage.
My generation of elders appears to be mortgaging and
threatening the future of coming generations
by remaining religiously focused upon the endless accumulation of material wealth, the unrestrained increase in per capita consumption of limited resources, and the continuous
consolidation of political / military power used to conquer Earth.