The Choice Channel

“When I covered the Detroit Public Schools for the Free Press in the mid 1990s, writing umpteen stories about failed programs, stolen money and incompetent management, I reached a point where it seemed to me better just to shut the system down and start fresh, to build something that worked, rather than continuing with what clearly didn’t. People laughed when I would say that out loud. What would you do with the kids? You can’t just give up on the whole thing. But who’d be laughing now?” (09/28/09)