“Two Los Angeles-based radio talk show hosts almost put their finger on the problem with the public school system and why those who try to reform it run into brick walls.

Here’s how one of them put it: “It’s like the only thing that matters is what’s good for the adults, and not what’s good for the kids.”

Bingo. It always comes back to this: the competing interests of the adults who work in the school system with those of the students supposedly served by that system. ” –Ruben Navarrette Jr.