Words of Wisdom on Ed Reform
It is sad that we had such a plethora of smart people in the last School Board election who didn't win. One who comes to mind is Jack Whelan who would have been the thinking person's Board Director. He wrote this comment at the thread about Ron Sims and it's worth reprinting in case you missed it. His words are the canary in the coal mine to what I believe will happen when the weight of ed reform starts to collapse on itself in about 10 years. He doesn't mention Obama but he might have been speaking of him. I love that he mentions Jerry Brown who has been one of the hardest-working public servants in our country. (Bold mine.) Every politician presents him or herself as an agent for change, but we're living in a time when almost everything we hear from mainstream politicians about the kind of changes they want to effect in education are terribly wrongheaded and destructive. The reason is simple: Politicians want to succeed, and they don't think the...