Our public school system needs some serious reform.

We’re not all cookie-cutter people. I think our system needs to adapt to an approach that accommodates for the infinite variation in people. (ok I can hear the screaming now, ‘you’re advocating letting illeterate people into the system’ – well ya know what? the system is full of them today and that’s part of what makes up this big robust soup called life).

When football season ended his senior year, his “pass” privileges were revoked. He suddenly had to struggle to get through his 2nd semester with a 5th grade reading level.

He just barely got that diploma.

He is almost 50 now and has had a very hard life, trying to catch up with every one else.

He is at least one person who should not have been graduated. But he really should have been helped all along.