The Jan. 7 edition of USA Today has a story entitled "Mayors increasingly seek to take charge of schools."
In response to schools in Washington, DC the story states: "A majority of fourth- and eighth-graders are failing to read or do math at basic levels. Roughly four in five schools are not meeting achievement goals under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Just 43% of students graduate from high school in five years."
What the mayor has done is what officials on some other states have done: gain control of the schools.
To this I say kudos, but I ask to the parents and others in the actual school district, I say "what took so long."
Coming from a city in the Delta, I have always wished that people would complain more about the public school system. When I would cover meetings for the local paper, I was absolutely sickened by the fact that a lot of the members of the public school board didn't even have children in the public school system. Does anyone else think this is wrong.
But whereas I would complain, others would not just seemingly accepting this fate. This is sad because the miseducation of our children, affects us all. This is our future. When they can barely read to their level this effects our economy and our city growth in a dismal way.
I believe more citizens need to ban together to see what can be done to salvage the public school system before it digs deeper and deeper into a system that is beyond repair.
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They really do need to speed up the process of making the public school system better, because there are a lot of issues to consider, such as what about all those children who can not afford an education, and how will they divide up the classes so that students that are learning ahead of others won't be falling back, and they need to have better textbooks, teachers, etc.