Perspectives from the Other Side of the Fence
My grandmother often repeated the familiar adage, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” I kind of got the point, which was that things possessed by others tended to look a bit better than what I had, even though they really weren’t.
We are used to hearing that the American public school system is “failing” or “broken.” There is a constant drone of criticism from multiple mouths that we are losing a global race to excellence; that we are being passed