Unfixing Our Schools Jack Moseley
Arkansas News Bureau, December 10, 2004 Citing Common Good's Over Ruled study and Philip K. Howard's recent op-ed, "You Can't Buy Your Way Out of a Bureaucracy," editorialist Jack Moseley makes a "radical" proposal:
Has anyone considered not 'fixing' whatever is supposedly wrong with public schools in Arkansas and throughout the rest of America? ... What would be wrong with 'unfixing' many of the laws, rules and regulations that now govern every minute of every classroom day?
The goal would be pretty radical, of course. It would be aimed at letting good teachers actually teach in orderly classrooms. As things stand now, it can take weeks to get a disruptive student removed from a classroom.
Responding to Common Good's finding that it can take 99 different legal steps and considerations just to hold an athletic event in a New York City public school, Moseley says:
I will concede that Arkansas schools are probably not as cluttered with laws, rules and regulations as those in New York City, but teachers from Jonesboro to Fort Smith are hog-tied and frustrated by laws, bureaucratic rules and regulations that do virtually nothing to help children actually learn.
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