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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Valerie Strauss - The Answer Sheet: The feuding is getting in the way - washingtonpost.com


Valerie Strauss - The Answer Sheet: The feuding is getting in the way - washingtonpost.com:

"I just might scream if I hear one more person invoke what is 'best for the kids' in the growing conflict between D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and her critics.

Tension is rising over a seemingly ever-larger gap between what Rhee says in public and what she does -- and while everybody is arguing about who is right and who is wrong and who didn't call whom back, guess who is going to suffer?

(Did I just invoke what is 'best for the kids'? Okay, I'm screaming.)"