Time & Perspective Quote by Christopher Bond

Paperwork is the villain everyone can boo without thinking too hard, and Bond leans into that clarity: “It is as simple as that.” The line is less an argument than a compression tactic, flattening a messy policy landscape into a moral tradeoff. If you care about kids, you cut forms. If you defend the forms, you’re choosing bureaucracy over students. That binary isn’t accidental; it’s how politicians turn administrative complexity into an easily legible outrage.

Bond’s specific intent is to build consent for “numerous reforms” by framing them as time returned to classrooms, not as ideological shifts or cost maneuvers. Notice the subject: “special educators.” That choice taps into a particularly potent sympathy reservoir. Special education carries a heavy load of legal compliance, documentation, and reporting requirements (IEPs, accommodations, accountability). By positioning special educators as trapped by paperwork, Bond implies the system is failing the most vulnerable students first, and that reform is a kind of rescue operation.

The subtext is that regulation is, at best, a distraction and, at worst, a kind of institutional cruelty. It also pre-emptively delegitimizes critics: anyone who raises concerns about safeguards, accountability, or funding can be dismissed as someone protecting red tape. Yet the phrasing quietly avoids specifics about what gets cut and what risks follow when documentation loosens.

Contextually, this reads like a pitch from the late-20th/early-21st-century reform playbook: promise efficiency, invoke teachers’ time as sacred, and use “free our time” as a proxy for “free our system” from oversight. The emotional appeal is real; the simplicity is strategic.