Education Policy

"The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to

generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead

horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government, public education, and in corporate America, more

advanced strategies are often employed. These include, but are by no

means limited to, the following:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride

dead horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's

performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve

the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less

costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially

more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And, last but certainly not least?

13. Promoting the dead horse to a management position. "