The blame lies primarily with the woeful state of schools in the health professions.
That's not to say that Radio Silence is some massive rant about the state of schools, it isn't.
He also expressed concern about the state of schools in areas populated by indigenous communities, saying that some lacked clean water and electricity.
Read this article from 2003 about the desperate state of school lunches and you'll appreciate how much progress is being made.
What we can say is that, however measured, the overall state of schools has improved during the course of the programme.
From those days in the 1960s, into the late 1990s, we worked together and edited Comprehensive Education, complete with its annual survey of the state of schools.
Mr. Forbes expressed dismay over the terrible state of schools in the area, which, he said, "are helping to define the floor".
In 2005, as part of a separate, and far-reaching, case originally brought against the state of North Carolina for its failing school system, Judge Howard Manning issued a report on the state of schools in Charlotte.
Or, as Walter Bagehot put it in The Economist of June 29th , 1861 commenting on an earlier inquiry into the state of schools: "nineteen-twentieths of our children are receiving an education of some sort.
Given the unavoidably uneven state of schools, "wouldn't anyone exploit all channels they could?" asked Wendy Vasquez, a parent at our high-poverty Ravenswood Elementary who oversees a nearby food pantry and knows about inequity.
