The principal ought to be held to account and he shouldn't have to explain everything he's done to this curriculum expert and to this division sub-superintendent and then to this associate superintendent, and then to the superintendent. He ought to be able to control his own turf with very little reporting requirements beyond being open to inspection at all time. This society will not survive on that basis. The economy won't survive and the defense mechanisms won't survive. You cannot accept that.
Democracy requires equality of opportunity.
You won't have equality of opportunity without early childhood education, and without intervention in the home at an earlier age than that. I believe the legislature is going to support programs that I have advocated to bring someone into the home of our children at age two to teach parents how to read to them and how to play with toys that are educational. That early intervention is absolutely essential to equality of opportunity. If there's no place at home to do the homework, there's got to be a place at school to do the homework. This is the democratic requirement, equality of opportunity but not equality of achievement.