When fifty-five thousand children fail, who else has failed ?

” Then he asked: “But if, after nine years, our greatest achievement is accurately measuring that fifty-five thousand children have not acquired essential competencies, have we educated them or merely photographed their failure?

One morning, the town crier announced: “About fifty-five thousand children cannot enter the Senior House because they failed Mathematics or English.

Perhaps, therefore, the most important question arising from the Fifty-Five Thousand is not: “Why did these children fail?