Patty Brown
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read

Hi Linda! My dad was a progressive superintendent in a small town in North Carolina. He retired in the mid eighties. Education was very important in NC at that time. My dad made sure his teachers had the best of everything and they had his total support. The same system today is struggling. We are creating an educational hodgepodge in the US. So much inconstancy will not work for students. I see something different:

We are turning schools into prisons. Students need relevancy and freedom. Teachers need support from the community. We have become a nation that prides itself on ignorance…but that will not work in the future. With third world schools, we soon become a third world country. Reinventing our public schools is the first step to saving our democracy. There is much to do, but as my dad would say, “Of course we can do it.”

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