ADVICE ABOUT SCHOOL

Okay. I get it. Some of you think that it's okay if the federal government takes on every issue under the sun. So here's what I - the schoolprincipal - say: Arizona, where I taught and where I was a principal for many years, is all about local control. I can't disagree with this approach. After all, many problems are best solved at the lowest possible level. So, in Arizona, each local school board normally gets the right to decide these kinds of issues. When my son went through elementary school here, paddling was approved as part of school board policy. Parents did have the right to opt out. The child of a parent who opted out did not get swats. At my school, as I recall, only 1 or 2 parents a year opted out... A place for educators to dialogue about school issues