Education, politics, social policy, the arts are all ways of transforming people from one state to another. That's why I'm interested in all that, as well as economics, history, and cities. The test is whether the transformations continue AFTER we've done our best.

Friday, March 9, 2007

What was bad is even worse

And it took me another 12 hours to figure out that, if they'd not been so racist in their hiring, and if they'd kept up with the increasingly bilingual population of students with a bilingual pool of new teachers, they would already have the capacity to offer Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian French in every grade from 1 through 12. Kind of remarkable how obvious the solution really was: to maintain or at least attempt a little more parity with the school population among the teacher population. Now, with a 20% turnover every year due to an aging school teacher pool, and with salaries 10% to 30% lower than their neighbors, they can't find any more Irish teachers to hire. Surprise!

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