One of his suggestions to make funds available for reform is to cut support personnel, but he doesn't address how schools would then clean themselves without custodians or how high school crime would be affected by the loss of security guards and police officers. While Gross's tendency to use his own high school experience as a model of excellence grows tiresome, his points are well taken. Jacob R. Marcus A man of many talents, Harby participated actively in the intellectual life of Charleston, South Carolina and was known as one of the region's most respected literati. Harby's life provides an excellent study for examining both the rise and fall of Charleston as an intellectual and cultural center and for investigating the first efforts to reform traditional Judaism and adapt it to a modern American environment. Dr. Zola rediscovers the intellectual and social world of early Southern Jewry.
Choice changes the psychology of it.
Our attempts at solving the education crisis are completely backward. The problem is not one of money, but of methodology. The problems in our schools have their root in special interest domination, union bosses, bloated bureaucracies and corrupt school officials. There is no other way to cure our educational ills than to allow and encourage competition with public schools. Our responsibility as a society is not to preserve public schools at all costs, but to educate our children, regardless of how this is accomplished.