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Teacher-turned-author releases novel imagining a future of privatized education

| June 27, 2025 1:00 AM

What happens when schools are run more like corporations than classrooms — and teachers are suddenly the highest-paid celebrities in the country?

North Idaho businessman and author Gene Bans, a former teacher, dives into that provocative question in "Sips of Hemlock," an imaginative, fast-paced satire that hurls readers into a near-future where education is almost entirely privatized.

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