The “schools” we deserve!
I just read Tom Friedman’s latest shot across our bow. He comments on “a new study by the consulting firm McKinsey, entitled “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools.””
He concludes his piece with, “…today, educationally, we are not a nation at risk. We are a nation in decline, and our nakedness is really showing.”
I’m continually flummoxed by our collective lack of concern for the problem he writes about (and there are many other challenges as well). We react like a deer caught in the headlights—stunned, confused, afraid. It looks and feels like analysis paralysis—we continue to analyze the problem(s), come up with similar conclusions, fail to act, then study again. How can this be?
As I said elsewhere, survival is not mandatory and I guess it doesn’t hurt enough yet.
Enuf said—I’m going for a walk!
