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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: MrLucky who wrote (14994)3/24/2006 2:58:53 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541102
 
But policy should not be made on the exceptional instance.

Translation:

Exceptional is bad or not policy worthy.

Mediocrity is good or must be accepted.

Not at all. Much more complicated. You can find exceptional folk in any organization but if you create policy out of their experiences you will fail. Exceptional means rare, unusual; and all organizations are filled with folk of varying skills, temperament, etc.

But sometimes you will find that the exceptional folk aggregate in some structural way. As in the Central Park East illustration I offered in an earlier post. Then you can try to replicate those structural conditions in a variety of instances, hoping that you attract more exceptional folk to those situations and/or you find that others can move to those levels if the conditions are correct.

But, in general, that will mean providing much more resources than are offered at present.

But to argue that the California public school system can be solved by multiplying the Jaime Escalantes simply won't work.
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