False hopes, false messiahs, false impressions

1) One of the new schools opening in place of those being closed is being run by THE MOTHER of the man who decides which new schools open....2) The New Visions organization which is opening another of those schools has a HIGH STAFF TURNOVER RATE3) I couldn't go to the horrible meeting in which all of this was announced because it was clear that the Dept of Ed had come to talk, but not listen. I sat there for a few minutes, but after the man who's mother is opening a school boasted that the schools which would be opening come from an organization which gets 80% graduation rates -- of what kind of students and where he did not say -- I left. You know, if you want an 80% graduation rate, you can get it. You just have to graduate the students. It's not the same as wanting to educate the kids...