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The institution of public education hangs precariously on the precipice of failure with its teachers and students balancing uneasily on the edge. Amazingly government involvement and upward spiraling district central offices have increased in direct proportion to the ever-widening chasm. As schools systems have swelled, the true meaning of education has faded away with the stakeholders of education lost in the groundswell.

Equally amazing is with all the government intervention, accountability and out-of-control administrative expansion, there are no authentic changes or answers to the problems plaguing schools. Test scores continue to decline as drop-out rates and behavior problems escalate. Besides additional accountability through testing and charter schools, there appears to be few novel ideas about how to address effective alterations to public schools.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the real problem is no-one is looking in the right direction or location to discover the missing answers. Perhaps the answers are right in front of us. Perhaps, they always have been.

Teachers and students are the foundation of public education. Without them it cannot exist. All else is extra. Instead of expanding upward, school systems need to remember that without strong and sturdy roots, without a strong foundation, the most majestic of trees or buildings will enlarge beyond their capabilities and most certainly falter and fall.

Supported by parents, counselors, home liaisons, paraprofessionals, and with the involvement of meaningful community contacts, education can once again be returned to those it was intended. Yet, in order for convoluted, top heavy, disconnected government and bureaucracies to fall, those at the bottom must, most certainly, be willing and effectively able to rise and seize the reins of influence and management of schools and public education. An outdated, impersonal, and inefficient system can only be transformed by a dynamic, personal, teacher and student directed arrangement. It can only transpire through A Return to the Little Red Schoolhouse.