May 22, 2008 - Wonder if this has ever been tried before?

Tim Darnell

May 22, 2008

Since Georgia's leaders don't like how dismally our students scored under their leadership, why don't they just throw out the test scores and say the whole process was flawed in the first place?

Wait a minute. Someone already has gotten that idea, and that's what they're doing. Here I was thinking I'd come up with a solution to a never-ending, disgraceful issue, and someone has beaten me to the punch.

It would be amusing - if it wasn't so tragic - how Georgia's education leaders are responding to this latest school system-related catastrophe.

But where is Atlanta's business community in all of this? With all of the talk and bluster coming from the private sector over the past year about Georgia's disgraceful high school dropout rate and how the corporate community is coming to the rescue, Atlanta's business leaders have been stunningly silent this week.