The past two to three decades have illustrated that it is dangerous to assume that major decisions affecting the public will be submitted for scrutiny and debate.
Remember the elementary school classes on Industrial Arts and Home Economics?
Many schools dropped those subjects, particularly the shop classes.
If you don't recall any extensive discussions of the pros and cons of doing so, it is probably due to the fact that there weren't any.
So too with the teaching of cursive. All of a sudden, gone! And now we have college students who cannot read and write cursive.
Part of the Great Turn-Around - and it's coming - will be an expansion of transparency.
If something has not been publicly announced, there's a reason why and it usually is not a good one.
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