Really enjoyed John Owens’s article “They’re Drowning Our Kids In Snake Oil” (Sept. 18-24).
I’ve often felt that if you switched the teachers in the high-flying schools with the teachers in the poor-performing schools the test results would be just about the same. The problem isn’t the teachers, who are being made scapegoats for the much bigger social and economic problems to which you alluded in your article.
Too bad the gutless politicians and their New York State educational cronies can’t come up with a “Common Core” for parental involvement in the education of their children. But that wouldn’t be a “quick-fix” would it?
Paul Mila
