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By: Gerald Harris
Education and teachers take a lot of criticism for the failure of students in the public schools today. The public seems to think that it is mainly teacher failure that is causing the problem and that is shown by the firing of whole groups of teachers in schools that are considered as below a specific performance level. People in Washington think that they can take control of schools at the federal level and put in the one size fits all program that they use for everything that they do. A senator, years ago, told me that to do otherwise would be to cumbersome and not feasible. That was in reference to something that placed the same rules on LaMoure, North Dakota as on New York City. Just the number of different ethnic groups in New York should have told that senator that there is no way that one size fits all and if you can't design specific legislation you probably shouldn't legislate at all.