Getting personal

How can four private school children relate to a situation that we have never experienced? While we may have found indications of where the problem lays in the numbers and data, we do not know the little details that add up to the task at hand. Regardless of how much we examine the system from afar, we will never be able to see its innards. These details can only be uncovered in exploring a student's empirical knowledge of the situation. Despite our lack of intimate familiarity with the dilemma, we will not let this stop us.

From all corners of the Bay Area - a region serving as a microcosm of the nation's educational system with examples of shining scholastic institutes and those more lackluster -we have begun to receive interviews from kids enrolled in all types of schools. Whether vocational, liberal arts, parochial, public, charter et cetera, we hope their insights might illustrate some continuities in their complaints. Through these continuities, we will more efficiently tackle the areas most detrimental in this issue.

So let the students speak.