Can we just stop it, please? It’s all just a big waste of time, energy, resources and public goodwill. None of this incessant arguing, posturing, school reorganizing, renaming of instruction standards — indeed, even changing the standards themselves — has ever, can ever or will ever teach a single one of the 50-plus percent of our Gainesville elementary and middle school students currently unable to read at the “developing learner” level how to do so.