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Always Worth Reading: Why Schools Aren’t Businesses (Blueberry Story)

July 11, 2013 Written by admin

In the 1980s, then-businessman Jamie Vollmer spoke before a crowd of public school teachers–who had a lot to say after he told them, “If I ran my business the way you people operate your schools, I wouldn’t be in business very long!”

This is a classic tale that still rings true today.

Read “The Blueberry Story.”

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