"One of the first things we learn as children is how to play nice.
We learn to share. We learn to listen.
That kind of respect means fewer meltdowns on the playground -- and, later, on the job.
It is a lesson that high-ranking adults in the Cleveland schools need to review. Immediately.
CEO Eugene Sanders' long-awaited strategy for transforming the schools hasn't yet been revealed, but the work leading up to it didn't go as well as anyone would have hoped. The district's information sessions with parents fell short of expectations -- on both sides -- and the Cleveland Teachers Union has become increasingly restless about what it calls a lack of involvement in the planning and designing."