It's past time to abandon assembly-line education

Gary Kraeger:

Wisconsin has the worst black/white achievement gap in the country. The Milwaukee Public Schools have big truancy, security and parental apathy problems. The system graduates about 50% of its students. How hard can it be to graduate from MPS with D's, yet half don't? Encounter an illiterate adult, and it'll break your heart.

You'd think parents, the education establishment and politicians would be running around like their hair was on fire, but they're not even cutting their bangs.

Don't look to the teachers union for answers. They're advocates for teachers, not kids. They just go with the slogan "Every kid deserves a great school" because it has a better ring to it than "We want more money." The slogan also implies that they think MPS is great. They will even protect some bad teachers.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 3, 2007 4:18 PM
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