So Improved

Every school in Florida has to write an annual "School Improvement Plan" (SIP, for you acronym-lovers). If your school is a terrible place, you might write in there that your goal this year is to wrestle its control back from the gangs that are currently ruling it. According to the DoE, you need to write this as a set of measurable goals, such as:
By the end of this year, less than 80% of students will use Schedules I to III Controlled Substances, and less than 20% of the faculty will be providing those to their students.
or
By the end of this year, terminations of student pregnancies will be reduced in half compared to last year.

However, if your school is and has always been an "A-Rated" school due to its amazing location right in the middle of an affluent neighborhood and to the fact that every attempt at integration has failed, then what is there to improve? Do we really need to write an improvement plan?

Now, I realize that we may be extremely successful at what we do and still strive to improve. Here are a few ideas:

• Hire more minorities.
• Have more people TEACH and less people in "support" jobs.
• Treat teachers with respect, almost as if they were professionals.

Will those be in the next SIP? Yeah, right!