Here is . . . part of a message a Houston high school principal recently sent to the parent of a pupil:
"Our school's cross-graded multi-ethnic, individualized learning program is designed to enhance the concept of an open-ended learning program with emphasis on a continuum of multi-ethnic, academically enriched learning using the identified intellectually gifted child as the agent or director of his own learning.
"Major emphasis is on cross-graded, multi-ethnic learning with the main objective being to learn respect for the uniqueness of a person."
The parent wrote back.
"I have a college degree, speak two foreign languages and four Indian dialects, have been to a number of county fairs and three goat ropings, but I haven't th Submitted by Studente faintest idea as to what the hell you are talking about. Do you?"
High school principal communication and organizational knowledge creation
