Reform "WarGames"-style
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tick, tick, tick....
The opening scene of "WarGames." Two men in the missile silo. The alert comes in. One man refuses to comply launching a missile, the other pull out his gun and orders, “Turn your key.”
A subsequent scene shows the furniture being removed from the silo and the men replaced by robotics. All missiles would all be controlled centrally based on running infinite global conflict scenarios of data into the WOPR.
Enter Matthew Broderick, a high school kid searching for games, only to find out he has accidentally started the clock ticking for the WOPR to fire missiles on Russia.
While the silo metaphor may be sadly accurate for too many classrooms, too many teachers are being replaced by robots. And, instead of leaders and practitioners making vital system-wide decisions, the President and Governors have turned the schools over to their State’s version leadership and decision-making to the WOPR.
The movie script in the Department of Education’s war room might read something like this. “Here’s the plan…
· Dismantle local schools to create highly centralized, county-wide and state-