School's out

It's not like there wasn't an education crisis before the housing bubble burst. The spiraling costs of energy and food, and cuts in funding are helping to accelerate the crisis. Not only are schools being forced to cut back, but the number of poor and homeless pupils is on the rise. As if that wasn't bad enough, there's also a decided failure of leadership. It seems the Clayton County (Ga.) school district is the third school district in the nation in 40 years to lose its accreditation. This means that, failing an appeal, students graduating from the district could have trouble getting into college and getting scholarships. The main problem seems to be that the students were failed by their school board. Today's students have enough to worry about as it is, and that doesn't even include when their teachers are being accused of providing their students with cocaine.