He blames society s shortcomings on public education. Too many people are looking for heroes in all the wrong places. Movie stars and rock musicians, athletes and models aren t heroes, they re celebrities.
Heroes abound in public schools, a fact that doesn t make the news.
There is no precedent for the level of violence, drugs, broken homes, child abuse, and crime in today s America. Public education didn t create these problems but deals with them everyday. Consider Dave Sanders, the school teacher shot to death while trying to shield his students from two Neo-Nazi youths on a bombing a shooting rampage at Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado. Sanders gave his life along with 12 students, but other less heralded heroes survived the Colorado blood bath. Columbine special Ed teacher Robin Oritz braved gunfire moving from classroom to classroom shouting at students and teachers to get out of the building.