Link Crew Follow Up

I had the pleasure of attending the Link Crew follow-up training this past Thursday. It was a seven-hour event. I arrived very early to the beautiful Laguna Hills. I studied and read for about 40 minutes at the quiet second floor lobby of The Hills Hotel. BoomerRang Project's Carolyn Hill hosted an energetic event. She proved again that she is an agent for positive change.

Throughout the whole process, however, I have the following thought: the success of programs like Link Crew is essentially contingent on the failure of the public educational system. If the educational system is good, defined as providing what students need, then there would not be any demands for programs like Link Crew, AVID, or THINK Together. My analogy is that the public school system is a pipeline. Our students are the precious water, leaking ever so rapidly from this pipe. These supportive programs, fantastic as they are, attempt to catch the leaking water. How can we measure our success or progress as educators? Catching a full glass of leaking water? Or having no leaking water?