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Heroes can and will emerge from the most unsuspecting places and make crucial decisions that can reverberate around the world. Rhode Island superintendent, Frances Gallo, boldly confronted the neglect of Central Falls High School students by pompous teachers and the Central Falls Teachers’ Union. Her challenge boldly illuminates the burden unions and governments jobs have on productivity and the overall quality of products that everyday Americans consume.
Frances Gallo was willing to courageously glare at the shameless monster of one of the worst school districts in the nation – reporting 50% of students failing their classes and less than 50% graduating....
Heroes Will Emerge
A few hundred annectdotes should follow.
What goes on in the individual classrooms is not open to the public, so the chaos is continuing.
No one wants to throw kids out, but, until the attitude is restored, in kids hearts, that education is a privilege, and not a right they will not get it. They will not want it. Thinking is an effort they will not take. Educational theory, as promoted for several generations, is an abject failure.
Life is a struggle. The joy of earning an A is lost on kids who are convinced they are exceptional...