<p>If we don't burn the nooses of standardized testing school shootings social media challenges and the school-to-prison pipeline we'll all end up hanging ourselves. Veteran educator and leader Rometha Gilmore believes that the only way to reconstruct public education is to discontinue its evolution into modern-day plantations. It's time for a candid conversation about what it takes to address the real issues and burn the noose once and for all. </p>