Swift & Change Able

A Brooklyn middle school student is the latest victim of the “Superbug” epidemic.

Public health officials are warning that we likely have not seen the end of this tragic epidemic.

When NCLB was signed into law in 2002, someone with more experience in such matters than I told me that the law would become the scapegoat for every identified problem in America’s schools. Keep in mind that this was before the law went into effect and that he was a supporter of the law himself, indeed had helped write it.

History has proved him right. We won’t do a list here. You would have to have lived under a rock for the last 5 plus years not to have noticed.

So, we are guessing it is just a matter of time before NCLB is in some way blamed for the spread of the Superbug. We hope we’re wrong. Attention should be paid to halting the spread of the disease. This is a job for epidemiologists, not education policy analysts. But we’ll keep an eye out nonetheless.