Most importantly, this failure to serve our best and brightest is not recognized. As the film points out, 70 percent of parents are satisfied with their schools and, still worse, 79 percent of high school principals believe that their schools are doing a good job.
Ahem. You can include me in the minority group on this one as regards our local school district.
Almost unanimously, school administrators fought his proposal. A local suburban principal argued that such schools would �just train scientists and engineers to give us more Challenger accidents.�
Scary. Really scary. Way,
way scarier than the story of the first grade teacher didn't who didn't feel competent to teach third grade math. At least she was aware of the problem, which could be easily solved with a refresher course.
What kind of fool makes a statement like that? And can you imagine the level of a mind that could produce so many incredibly dumb and wrong ideas, on so many levels, in so few words?
So I'm not mincing words here, but I don't care. It's time to stop letting these types get away with this sort of thing. They're destroying the education system in this country.
Val
