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Friday, February 10, 2017

Life on the Education Plantation


In the course of my management consulting, I’ve been to some of the toughest neighborhoods in the country.  If you do business in these areas, you know to always visit them early in the day when they are relatively safer. Thus in my travels I’d see four and five-year-old kids playing like all four and five-year-olds do.  But, as they got older, they developed an increasingly hard look in their eyes. And, by only nine or 10, many had a look in their eyes no child in America should have.  Even at that age, they had put up with more crap than one can imagine. The neighborhoods they were born into have astonishing crime rates. The few terrorize the many and, unlike the police, they don’t leave.......Read more

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