Anyone anywhere who believes anything that their board of education or superintendent tells them is a fool. They're bought and paid for by the teachers unions and their adjuncts, the PTA's. Dishonesty & dissembling are old hat to all of them. The Buffalo public schools only appear exceptional because the incompetence of the administration is so blatant and in your face and the selfishness of the teachers union and it's callous disregard of the students is so obvious and out front. However, these are only differences of degree and not differences in kind from every school district in the area.