Is my head in the clouds for thinking that it is possible to provide quality education in our public schools? Sure, our funds, programs, and enthusiasm have all been cut, but the children are still there looking at us with eyes, hearts, and brains that are so easily filled, and yet so hard to reach. We have to change what we are teaching to keep up with how kids are learning. We have to find ways to provide art, music, drama, and dance to release the potential that these children have hidden inside. 

We're faced with the same old, same old: ongoing problems, predictable attitudes and behaviours - nothing we can do so we do nothing. 

But what if we could? We could mobilize the community, adopt sponsors, approach celebrities so we could be "their" school and then, we could use the money and the talents of willing people around us to reinstate good teaching practices, provide fine arts meaningfully and engagingly, and remove the deadwood.

Here's the state of education today. What are we going to do to change it? After all, our ill-equipped students of today, are our policy setters of the future. 

I say, "Invest in the children." It's in our vested interest.