Good Grief Dept.

The historically shameful New Orleans public school system is said to be vastly better now, following it's total reorganization after Hurricane Katrina blew it to pieces. N.O. has emerged with the largest proportion of charter schools of any city, which suggests that the pernicious power of the former "education" establishment has, at last, been broken. Suddenly, there is hope. Katrina was not an entirely ill wind, it seems.

Here's an idea: Maybe our disgraced climate scientists could gain some redemption for their global warming sins by arranging a massively destructive weather event for Detroit. OK, OK. But all kidding aside, does anyone seriously believe that substantial reform of perennially-failing union-dominated inner city school systems in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., etc., will ever happen without first blowing them to smithereens? Eggs, omelets!

The individual who wrote these emails, Otis Mathis, himself a product of the Detroit Public Schools, is president of the Detroit school board, which clearly is one finely-tuned meritocracy. Reading his work product, you instantly get a strong sense of why the DPS are doing the kind of job they are doing, and will continue to do, year after year after year...

Byron