Please read the following Memphis Commercial-Appeal story about the brave, new world of education Memphis City Schools are pursuing. Then ask what's wrong with Nashville public schools and its leadership.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/oct/09/city-school-changes-nearly-in-place/
Memphis' new school director is implementing the first of his multi-step improvement plan. The first step separates the district by regions to better serve and work with parents, tracks student performance every 20 days for review by administrators and recruits churches to participate in student education with their resources.
Meanwhile, Nashville does not even have a schools' director and is months from state takeover for not meeting No Child Left Behind Act standards.
Memphis City Schools and its leadership are doing something incredibly right and building on progress. When will Nashville officials travel three hours west to Tennessee's largest city and learn how to educate all children correctly and morally?
Time is critical for every child.
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By waiting to get educated to hear some way of effective change will solve nothing. I myself have learned this the hard way in less important/life changing situations. If Nashville school district if going to meetings why aren't they acting on the education they are receiving? Could it be that they are waiting to hear information that they want to hear, because what they want to work hasn't been working thus far. I say they educate themselves by looking for inspiration from those who have made way in acheiving the goal to which we hear in the Nashville school district are so desperate in acheiving. Thinking won't accomplish anything, acting will.
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