Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. We build jails and want to have increased sentences for criminals, but we never want to pay for education. But if we want to save our democracy, we're going to have to turn that around. The disparity between the haves and have-nots is increasing almost daily and on a geometric basis.
Kids are at war with society.
If anyone is going to be able to obtain amnesty, it's going to have to be us. At the same time, we don't really work on the strength of these kids. All kinds of things that kids can do are not recognized at school. Maybe it is too small, but that is the way everything starts. We may not keep them forever, but if we can keep a good teacher in the urban communities for five years, I think we can build a cadre sufficiently substantial to do something.