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The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 31, 2008

Regarding "3 Area Schools Targeted For Closing" (front page, July 30):

Closing three "failing" schools is a bit like one ancient culture's practice of whipping a certain large stone in the village center whenever there was a crop failure.

Are brick-and-mortar schools responsible for the success or failure of the people within or are there more useful causes to be explored? Are children failing our schools or are we failing our children?

Closing schools (and what, tearing them down?) does not improve children's education. Even five options to make students successful in school are not enough. If there are 1,000 failing students, there are probably 1,000 reasons and as just as many options needed for individual success.

Until we as a society can develop a public education system that deals with the specific learning needs of each individual at-risk student, we will fail any attempts to effectively deal with the causes of failed students.

FRED JACOBSEN

Apollo Beach

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