I also believe that, in a republic such as ours, the education of our future citizenry is the only real thing between what we have known and tyranny. For those who might think I’m nuts, I refer you to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington and the federal legislation passed in the years just prior to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention.

Back to the hierarchy of the management of public schools, if one considers the financial incentive (six figure salaries and equally formidable pensions) of today’s education executive or administrator, then one might seriously think about abolishing that hierarchy and give the implementation and administration of the curriculum to those specifically trained and already in place to do so–our teacher corps.

I believe that we would get more done with less and our student outcomes would substantially elevate regardless of whether we deep-six standardized testing or not.

This is the real public school reform that would give us all a break-students, parents, teachers and taxpayers. The only interest group who would suffer would be those at the top–the very ones who are trying like the dickens to place the accountability everywhere else except where it truly should rest–the bosses.