Quotes Guaranteed to Bite You on the Ass

Oddly enough, not from John Kerry.

“If the community works with me and gets me the support I need,” he said, “I will fix the middle-school problem in the next two or three years – no problem.”

David L. Brewer, the new superintendent of schools in Los Angeles, said that in the Los Angeles Times. In a case of Los Angeles copying Seattle, we’ve tried the military man-come-educational leader when John Stanford led the Seattle Schools, though it’s not fair to draw any conclusions on what he accomplished because of his untimely death.

The Education Wonks have the best analysis of the situation here. Again I say to you: I’m in the wrong line of work.