Educators need to find way to survive in a changing paradigm

The paradigm of public education has been under assault for nearly three decades. Property values have plummeted, charter schools, homeschooling, foreign competition in the economic world have all taken their best body blows to our public school system. The question for today is whether school officials and our elected officials can hit the curve ball pitched to them. My guess is that most of them cannot compete at this level. The model of leadership we need to today is exemplified by Alan Mullally and Ron Gettelfinger They are finding a way for their organizations to survive in a changing paradigm. A tapeworm instinctively knows that it cannot kill its host. Are our school officials and elected officials smarter than a tapeworm? Dennis Grysen Chelsea