Iremember fondly making out my Christmas wish list and wanting only one thing: a Triple F.A.T. Goose coat emblazoned with any pro team logo to score me the cool points and admiration that accompanied donning the stylish coat. But to my dismay, my parents didn’t get me the trendy team edition Triple F.A.T. Goose. I got a boring long black coat. I thought there was no way I could go to school in such an unimpressive and unwanted coat. I didn’t realize then that, even though they didn’t get me what I wanted, they got me what I needed to survive the brutal Northeast Ohio winter.

I feel the same way about the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) plan for Cleveland Public Schools. It isn’t what anyone asked for -- few consider it a gift, and if it were, it’s a gift we’d return if we could. But just

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