As you might imagine, articles on the local public schools are starting to grab my attention.
I couldn't get more than a couple paragraphs into this one before breaking into a fit of "did she really just say that?" laughter.So when Ellen Foote, the school’s veteran principal, received a copy of the school’s new report card from the city’s Education Department, she was taken aback at the letter grade: D.
“It is just so demoralizing to have a number or grade assigned that is just sort of trivializing things,” Ms. Foote said. “It doesn’t reflect, I think, the valuable work and the very complicated work that we do here.”
I can't even enumerate the lines of questioning one could take from here....
