Hundreds of thousands of them are suffering from educational malnutrition. They're trapped in under-performing schools that stifle ambition. We cannot allow this to continue . Please don't tell the parents of 15,000 children to be patient . . . to expect that the same system that already has wasted years of their children's precious lives is capable of correcting itself. Given enough time, a Howard Lappin could change their schools.
Good principals do that.
But poor kids trapped in bad schools don't have time. I refuse to accept the absurd argument that rescuing 15,000 children from failing schools will somehow bring down the entire public school system. Forty years ago, the civil rights battle raged over getting children into good schools. Now, the battle must be joined to get them out of bad schools. My friends, we can prevent that unconscionable waste.