A San Francisco mother is suing the school district because her son’s reading problem left him ‘unqualified for any employment other than the most demeaning, unskilled, low-paid manual labor.””

The question in front of the court reads, “Is a public school system guilty of fraud if it awards a high-school diploma to a student who can read at only a fifth-grade level?”

“This novel law suit – of a type that some educators have been expecting for years – could unleash similar assaults from disgruntled parents across the nation. Many parents … have long complained that teachers shunt their children through the system without properly educating them.”

If I said the above referred to a situation in a typical urban school district in 2016, you, or at least education reformers, would not be in disbelief. Not true. The date is 1972!

Sustainable change is a very long, extremely tough road, involving every component of the socioeconomic/edupolitics equation. And sometimes it is not evident that anything has changed.

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