There's other ways than pulling triggers and cleaning up messes.
   It's a thing called planning. Rollout plans. 1 month, 6 month,
   12 month, 2 yr, 5 yr, 10 yr, 20 yr goals.

   I know that shoot, kill, clean up mess is the 'Merukin way but
   to me, with all the information we have at our usage, ... all
   the psychology, all the philosophies, all the organizational
   management knowledge, all the sociology, we still use the model
   of shoot, kill, without knowing who pulled the trigger, , not
   understanding the gun, not understanding the nature of the
   bullet, (it's usually buckshot without a shell - and it likes to
   SPRAY far and wide) - and not knowing who the intended victim is
   or who actually gets shot until long after a _new_ idea comes
   along, and then a forensics team comes by and picks apart the
   mess and retraces everything.

   It's our way and how we do things as a country. But we could do
   things better.

   I want Common Core to work. But I expect a future report to say,
   "Where Common Core went wrong" to be written around 2035 and a
   new whiz-bang 'gonna fix education' concept is being rolled out.

   Now I know most predictions of the future are wrong and I expect
   mine is likely to be wrong as well.

   But it's hard to ignore the tendencies, the patterns, and seeing
   where things led in the past and where they may lead in the
   future.

   Poor implementation can kill a good concept, and usually does.
   We get stuck in the theory and say, "well, reality will soon
   conform to our theory perfectly", but it rarely does. Maybe
   it'll be different this time, and I hope it is.