Quick! Cut the Bloomberg Privatization Branches!
Loretta Prisco- Staten Island Education Activist
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results… or anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
(Albert Einstein)
Several weeks ago we woke to the sound of loud banging at our vacation home. Heating system? New refrigerator? A fox or coyote trying to get in? No, a robin who seated himself on a branch near the bay window and continually, methodically, fiercely and unsuccessfully flew into the same window pane and then flew back to the same branch. For several weekends, we woke to the same sound. Concerned for the bird, we’d walk over to the window, he’d fly away but return. We knocked on the window, determined, he’d return. We put my granddaughter’s doll in the window, fearlessly he seemed to stare her down, and come back. Could we teach this robin with a bird brain, that this was dangerous? No. So we cut the branch down as we left this morning. Will he come back? Made me think about education policy.
The DOE beats its head against the research that says low class size has a positive impact on learning and continues to