Anthony West wrote:
"We are moving away from model comparisons and an emphasis on competitiveness," Dungee Glenn elaborated. "What we do need to learn from those schools that are doing well, are best practices that can be transmitted to other schools under different management."
yes! that is exactly what I meant by "maybe it's time to start looking at public schools not as competing vegetable stands, but as places that prepare us for life -- inside and outside the marketplace."
At this point, I'm not prepared to follow Ray's advice and "move out" of the SD's "catchment areas" -- just give up on Philadelphia, in other words.
of course, I wasn't advising you to leave, I was prodding you into explaining how one is to deal with the inequitable delivery of/access to quality public education in the city. hope is always fine, but in the meantime not everyone is in an equal position where they can afford to wait and see, nor is everyone in an equal position of mobility "when something new and better comes down the pike." thoughts?
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