Assigned Blog 1/15/09--Annals of Education Response

I must admit...I am a little slow.  [inside joke to be exposed!] After finally realizing that my school blocks articles from The New Yorker, I was able to read the article. So much for not buying internet at home. The article was very interesting because I love football; I never really made the connection between the drafting of quarterbacks and teachers. I think that the author kind of downplayed the teacher problem, though.  Guess what Mr. Gladwell!! The world can live without football and quarterbacks!! People watch football for entertainment.  I would hope that the education of a child would supercede football.  At any rate, I was disappointed that Shunka ended without resolution because guess what folks, the correlation was clear!! There is no resolution for what to do about drafting quarterbacks for the NFL, and there sure in the hell isn't one for what to do about the teacher crisis.  What do we do? What do we do as educators? What do we do as future parents? The answer to everything is money, and we just do not have it!! So what do we do??? Wish I could answer that question, but until someone develops an answer I guess we will just keep throwing passes.