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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (266898)	6/25/2002 7:24:50 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769667

Couldn't agree more Gordon. Well said.... The article highlights a huge problem happening across the country in inner city schools. We are losing many of our best and brightest teachers, because, they feel powerless to change a broken bureaucratic organization which is systemically failing across the board. Books get lost, Buss routes make no sense, classroom time is out of sync with what parents need, and so much more. Behind the mess is an intractable NEA doing everything it can to keep the bureaucratic machine of government education pumping money whether it's working or not. They live in a silo of control standing side-by-side in a turf battle against America's children and parents. Another excellent point you made was in reference to the formative years. It only takes 3 or 4 years for a screwed up school system to ruin a child for life. We simply cannot afford the time to slowly grind the education establishment around to thinking clearly about these issues. I firmly believe, in many of the worst districts we need huge sweeping change, like the one happening in Philadelphia in regard to Edison taking over the entire school system. Why the heck don't we try! What have we really got to lose? Why are the liberal Democrats so unbending, closed minded and intractable regarding such an important challenge? The answer is power and control. Democrat power resides with the education establishment union. And it's the main reason I label them the #1 destructive element in our society today. Citizenship requires an educated mind, ignorance and dependence requires a failing school system in which to breed in. Crime, drugs, family breakdown, fatherless dads, welfare, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, and spousal violence all have large links connected to a lousy education. I saw it first hand in the 70's in Washington D.C. The kids who did well in school made it out of the ghetto and created a decent life for themselves. The ones who couldn't read, write, or buckle down and study ended up on welfare, on drugs, or coming and going from jail, or worse dead. The single biggest challenge we face as a society is the improvement of our public school system. Especially, our inner city public schools. And the single biggest obstacle standing in the way is the powerful NEA.