RE: Accountability

I think that there is a vital democratic impulse in this
effort at a dialogue on these crucial issues. I think that
the question of accountability must be approached in a 
similarly democratic, non-hierarchical manner-- accountability
of each to all and all to each, in other words, rather than
an accountability which is based on accounting, top down and
hierarchical and concerned with the "bottom line." Teachers
and administrators need to be accountable to students as well
as vice versa. The schools certainly need to be accountable 
to families, communities, taxpayers. But as a society, we
must hold ourselves accountable to providing an education
that truly enlightens, liberates and uplifts.

In this regard, I think people might want to reconsider
the very terminology of a "MASTER PLAN" -- why not,
for example, a "COMPREHENSIVE PLAN" or some other term
less freighted with obnoxious connotations than "MASTER."