One day last week, a well-dressed woman popped into the offices of the Minneapolis Board of Education, pulled off a shoe, and tacked a funeral bouquet to the door. On the bouquet was a note: "With sincere sympathy to the people of Minneapolis, who would bury our high hopes ... by neglect."
The funereal feeling was general in Minneapolis. The day before, popular School Superintendent Willard Goslin had written the board: "I cannot lend myself any longer to the neglect and mistreatment of public education which continues in Minneapolis." And with that he resigned.
Willard Goslin's name commands respect among U.S. educators....
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