The history of education from the days of the earliest, rural, one-room school house until recent times (so called reform movement) has been one full of many successes. It was left to the locality and the educators within that locality to take care of the schools and the students. Was in perfect (nothing is), no, that's not the point or goal. Things worked well for the most part.
The infusion of non-educators, all-stakes testing, legislatures, and naysayers of public education have taken a toll on the system of public education and the students and teachers. This isn't conjecture this is based on eye-witness accounts of events and hearing from top professionals.
The list of transgressions against public education is so long that it boggles the mind. Let me put it this way. Leave the local public schools to those in the classroom and the residents served by the schools. Those outside of the local units need to quit telling them how to teach, what to teach, how to treat kids, why they should do this, and more. Enough is enough; well, actually its gone beyond this point.
Don't allow excellence and the good being done to be outdone by the perfect.
Dick
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