You always learn and evolve from your clients.

 

I'm fairly conservative on the political scale. My client had a partner who was off-the-charts liberal. Curtis Linton actually believed you could achieve equity in education, which meant that no matter what the socio-economic level of the students, they could achieve educational parity. In other words, poor ESL kids could achieve the same grade-level scores as white, affluent kids.

Admittedly, I'm a prep-school (Andover) snob, and have a strong bias for silver-spoon upbringing. Sure, I went to Andover on full scholarship, but boy did I stick my nose in the air. Then I met Curtis.

He wrote a book called EQUITY 101. Over the years I worked with School Improvement Network, I drank the Coolaid. Yes Curtis, my bomb-throwing liberal friend, you're right. Equity in education can be achieved.

Sincerely yours,
Rick Bennett
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