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Sadly, I cannot offer a solution. The system is badly broken and possibly beyond repair. If a factory were to produce a product with a waste rate of 20% per cycle, the stock holders would look for solutions: shutter the factory; retrain or fire the production crew; purge the management staff or any other myriad combinations of redesign solutions would be investigated. When dealing with schools and school districts, the stake holders are composed of all American citizens and the wasted capital is human beings and human potential. The rate of wasted product is often over 40%. This is unacceptable in business and it is inconceivable (but true) when dealing with our children.

Scrapping the entire educational system is impossible: too many interests are entrenched and empowered; no existing alternative system is in place for a quick and orderly transition. But systems are often built subsystem upon subsystem. Here solutions, starting locally and building upwards to the state level can be worked out.

We Americans can demand that within our states that the systems that are not working be scrapped, assets shifted and, ultimately, people be held responsible, be they students, parents, teachers, administrators, board members or politicians. Truly, it is time for local citizenries to make their voices heard at school board meetings. It is time for citizens of the state call their assemblymen and state senators. It is time for all Americans to raise their voices and let Congress ring with the call for civil justice.

Too much time has passed with schools failing the American public. Let us not have one more school day pass where incompetence is met with indifference. For too long public schools have failed us. Let us not fail our public schools.

An educated mind is the greatest weapon against tyranny.
-- I.M. Kessel

THE GROWN-UPS HAVE LEFT THE ROOM

Romper Room is open again,
Doors locked against the bad guys.
That only the frisky Dems can play
Will elicit no massive surprise.

Whining and sulking are taught within
By those adept in the field.
Moral rectitude is the game they’re at.
Let righteousness be their shield!

With escape hatches at the ready,
They can scurry away unobserved.
To expect them to put their shoulders back
Is so obviously absurd.

There used to be Liberal grown-ups,
But they’re now on the other side.
Progressive pretenders can’t abide the light.
They can only run and hide.
-- Mimi Evans Winship