«People will not like, necessarily, what I have to say, but I'm a person who is trying to get my arms around
a totally dysfunctional school district which is not performing,» Paladino said.
These days, it has become
totally acceptable for education leaders to blame poverty for our nation's achievement gap; to in effect say that all those kids can't learn in
school because they're hungry, their families are
dysfunctional, they are so far behind when they start Kindergarten that there's just no catching up, etc..