Fort Worth Republican Pat Hardy, a longtime teacher, voted for the new standards, but said she wished the board could work with a more cooperative spirit. "What we've done is we've taken a document that by nature is too long to begin with and then we've lengthened it some more," Hardy said, shortly after the vote. "Those long lists of names that we've put in there ... it's just too long.
"I just think we failed to keep that in mind, it's hard for teachers to get through it all.". . . and if you think it's too long for the teachers . . .Basically you're faced with the "If 'everything is important' then nothing is important" problem.
Here’s that keeper quote from McCormick.
“...TO FURNISH THAT CHECK UPON GOVERNMENT WHICH NO CONSTITUTION HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE.”