The public education system is broken and desperately needs focused attention, but civil society is forced to divert time and resources to a ridiculous battle more appropriate to the 1600s.
It has also forced them to divert time and money to organize the workers they already represent, rather than putting all their resources into organizing new workplaces.
I would not be keen to divert officers' time to these subjects".
Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple ways not just via standardized tests.
Competition for time and transfer of resources are compounded by the fact that the best-trained and most competent officials are also the most likely to divert their time to other activities outside the health sector (a de facto brain drain).
The legacy has been diverted over time to provide a large sinecure for the clerical warden of the place.
"Diverting police time to investigate Bloody Sunday soldiers or crimes from the Troubles seems a waste when the priority today should surely be tracking down the tiny, but dangerous, attacks from dissident IRA groups, as well as facilitating ordinary, plain community safety," he said.
And would you have campaigned heavily in favor of a school bond issue in Lewiston, diverting staff time to the cause, not to get potential workers trained on a particular machine but to get all high school graduates in the area better prepared for life?
It helped them differentiate between minor and major errors thereby avoiding diverting unwarranted time to rectifying the former.
Without extra money, they said, they will have to divert time and staff members from traditional programs to smallpox.
