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| - Likewise, school planning and communicating must be woven into community. The “Smoky City Image” sticks to Pittsburgh because smoke still swirls around as deals get hatched behind the scenes. The new Right Sized Plan is pretty good. It has been pretty good at keeping others at bay. It has been pretty good generating smoke. The Right Sized plan has been pretty good at taking a pretty good district into the future where we'll be pretty darn good. Pretty good isn't good enough when smoke fills the landscape. Pretty good isn't good enough when our most precious, our kids, face large impacts. The parent hot line is pretty good. I wanted a robust, open-source, time-saving, interactive communication infrastructure. I suggested this at the November hearing. Mr. Roosevelt marveled about Pittsburgh's rumor mill. Starve that problem – and don't feed it. Pull the plug on pretty good and make excellence the standard. Justifications and reasonings are necessary. An open defense is necessary, not negotiations. Adjustments are expected. Put changes and challenges into the open. Then confidence can take root. I believe that all the king's horses and all the king's men won't be able to fix Pittsburgh They might be “pretty good.” But, we crave excellence, and that can only happen after we leverage all the people's might and smarts. Organize us along with the king's horses and king's men. Then Pittsburgh can soar, and the smoke can clear. We are all connected. We all are teachers. And, we all are students.
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