Mr. Korte didn't like this choice very much. But he said he wouldn't quit straight away. I guess we can't blame him for wanting to take his ball and bat home if it turns out the new board wants to play football instead. But he should stick around. With any luck, he and the board can work through their ideological differences and figure out a way to make every school excellent like Hi-Mount, and a way to get more than half of the kids who start high school as freshmen to graduate, and a way to reduce violence and weapons in school.
Nobody quits till it's fixed.
Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on May 9, 2001. All rights reserved. Produced by Journal Interactive .