“No one should claim choice was a panacea for solving the really knotty problems in public education. It defused a situation that never should have existed.”
“Firefighters don't like the term 'culture change.' They think it's an assault on tradition. But look at the facts. Half of the firefighter deaths each year are due to heart attack, and another 25 percent are guys who die in car accidents on the way to the fire. Firefighters are indeed heroes, but these are not hero deaths.”
