HOW did we forget to do so many basic things?
How did we forget to pave roads? How did we forget to drill for oil? How did we forget to arrest the bad guys? How did we forget to marry the mother of our children? How did we forget to pay our bills? How did we forget to build cars? How did we forget to educate children?
In the relative short decades of my life, we have booted some of the simplest things men and women do. We have become so wired, so media savvy, so plugged in to celebrity gossip and a trillion shiny distractions, we’ve forgotten how to walk and chew gum.
Running a school is the civic equivalent of walking and chewing gum, but the evidence suggests we’re tripping over our feet and choking on the Hubba Bubba. Los Angeles continues to boot the three R’s. How in the world did the nation that put men on the moon forget how to put textbooks in classrooms?