After 34 years of writing about education, I’m pretty convinced that everyone who volunteers their time to help run public schools starts out wanting to do right by kids, even if those good intentions sometimes go off the rails.
That is especially true in Seattle, where the middle class has long supported public education, despite this city’s unusually high rate of private school enrollment. Recently, that flight to private has been driven by the ballooning class sizes, slumping academic progress and general chaos that are now hallmarks of Seattle Public Schools.
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