Smashing Pumpkins – Christmastime

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In all honesty, Santa, I had written this list for you several weeks ago, not realizing that you had already started granting my wishes. It seems as if the next item on my preconceived wish list is already in the works.

Santa, what I was merely hoping for was a process that was less political, more transparent, and based on, you guessed it, better data.

However, Santa, it looks as if you’ve gone far past my wish for tweaking the Public School Choice process and gone ahead and killed it. While I am open to the idea that the original intent behind PSC was likely a noble and perhaps even forward thinking one, the process quickly deteriorated away from instructional improvements and into political posturing. While a tweak may have worked, Santa, saying goodbye to PSC may not be a bad thing insofar as it gives our schools time to improve instruction and our district time to improve the ways of measuring and supporting instruction.