Exactly. But I have been teaching twenty years and I don't see that national dialogue coming any time soon. If anything education is even more politicized than ever before. Everyone's an expert and everyone knows exactly how it should be and the pendulum just keeps swinging from one side to the other. This is exactly why, though it is publicly funded, it historically was strictly locally controlled. Not so anymore. You are right though, we need to see the goal in mind first. School is supposed to fill a need, not just fill up time. So how do we start that truly productive national dialogue that doesn't just lead to another swing of the pendulum?
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