Reformation needed
To the editor: This is an open letter to the administrators of schools in crisis in a nation in crisis in a world in crisis.

Administrators set the priorities, spend tax dollars and dictate the policies and schedules your children live by. This is not a plea for more money that never worked, but for a reformation in public education.

Toledo Public Schools is preparing a generation to cope with a world in crisis unlike any previous generation. In this energy and environmental crisis, you install automatic light switches and contemplate wind generators (birdwatchers permitting), but you start your six-hour day in the dark. Some high school kids must get up at 6 a.m. and at time change, 5 a.m., to walk over cold, dark, snowy, dangerous roads, and they get to school so tired they fall asleep.

Sleep deprivation, which can kill, is rampant among school teens. The concept of having summers off to help on the farm is 100 years old.

Operate schools in summer. Kids could safely walk or ride bikes to school. No delays. No need for Christmas, New Year or spring breaks. Give the days to kids in summer. After 14 years in grade school, millions of kids enter a job market where 10 million or more are jobless. Kids are prepared for state test, but not a nation in crisis.

America has become a service nation – a beggar nation. Foreign nations are buying up our debt and real estate.
Vincent P. Yancey
Curtice

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