Meaningless Language

From Politico--Obama�s education secretary Arne Duncan sounded surprisingly like the Republican governors when he told teachers unions and administrators at a conference Tuesday in Denver, �Clearly, the status quo isn�t working for children.�

Really? Seems likes the status quo isn't working for adults...taxpayers, budget writers, lawmakers, etc.

And just what is the status quo? It's a lot different at my school than it is at my children's schools, which is different from what it is at schools in other parts of our city.

I find it almost fortunate that something as sprawlingly amorphous as 'the schools' probably really isn't fixable on the grand scale...anything we think is a fix is probably as destructive as it is helpful, so I'm glad such fixes are hard to implement.