Community Schools Are the Trojan Horse of Education

Commentary The Greeks left a wooden horse as a trophy or symbol to the people of Troy, a city located in the northwest corner of modern day Turkey, after a failed and desperate 10-year blockade of the city. First mentioned in the Homer’s “Odyssey,” this wooden horse was later brought within the city walls as an offering to the goddess, Athena. Forty of Greece’s best warriors, however, lay hidden inside the wooden horse structure, and by entering the gates of Troy, the Greek warriors and King Agamemnon’s army was able to eventual take control and destroy the city. This literary account of the Trojan horse is rich in symbolic imagery and epitomizes the modern-day understanding of subversive tactics, ruse, or deception....