Second, does this mean that there is no over sight at all over those exempt schools systems? There is already too much ‘under the table’ money with Boards of Education and too much unethical activity in school systems. I just cannot believe that the State will allow that to run amuck even more.

Lastely, please do not confuse administrative and political decisions with the teaching profession. We teachers are frequently at least as horrified as you at what goes on. Our role is to teach a classroom full of your children to the best of our ability with the tools supplied to us. We have ZERO input on decisions like these.

Never mind the constructive critiques made by reader after reader after reader on Downey’s articles. Perhaps if Milsap weren’t so complacent herself, she might have taken the time to analyze them, rather than dismiss them with no evidence to support why.

But rather than actually debate the merits of the arguments Downey makes, we are supposed to believe, according to Milsap, that the only validation needed to blindly follow anything that Downey says is that someone disagrees with it?

And this passes for critical thinking in the teaching profession?

I am hoping that IE2 goes away before too many school systems become exempt from the rules that actually benefit students.