The sad part is 13, 14 years later, we don't seem to have gotten much smarter, ... If anything, we've lost traction.

To make it a top-down solution isn't the answer. There is this incredible sense of impatience and this incredible sense of entitlement, and I am actually scared to death. Nobody is pushing back. ... The more we centralize this, the more dangerous it gets.

To make it a top-down solution isn't the answer, ... There is this incredible sense of impatience and this incredible sense of entitlement, and I am actually scared to death. Nobody is pushing back. ... The more we centralize this, the more dangerous it gets.

If anything, we've lost traction.

Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Often there are not enough adult bodies in a classroom, which boosts the stress level for everyone. So all of a sudden if a couple of kids are needy, they risk being expelled.