David Harsanyi’s latest piece, on education reform, is simply dripping with sarcasm:
Though I’ve seen evidence to the contrary, experts assure me that children are the nation’s most precious natural resource. Logic, then, says that teaching is the most important profession in the country. And by extension, firing teachers who consistently fail to do their job should not be very controversial.
Still, political parties come and go; teachers don’t. All the while, urban school districts remain on a stable trajectory, headed from horrendous to Mississippi.
Who knows? Perhaps there’s hope. The country’s top minds on education have cooked up a surefire solution to tackle this emergency: They’re having a contest!