Is is silly-season, already?!?
Any similarities between these to stories are due only to your excellent perceptual abilities.Operating for two decades as a small alternative program with just two classrooms, the new Harvey Milk High School officially opens as a stand-alone public school with 100 students in September.
[btw -- don't they have any notable, accomplished gay men [or women?!?] in NY to name this place in honor of? is it really the banner they want to run under one of a mediocre SF,CA politician who was killed by a nut-bucket? or is that "martyred" by a "straight?"]
"Using a white teacher would send the wrong message to black students... "... that the importance of your historical background is less important... than a schedule conflict."
Well, if we can't tell kids who live in the valley a story about mountain climbing, I guess there's gotta be short people's history, history for people who paint their toe nails, dog-lover's history, red-haired people's history, history for math-majors. Oh, gawd! What if I fall into two of these categories?!? I'll never make it across campus in time to catch both classes! How about history for people who are always late? Just forget History for Adults.
I see these stories as representing what is really wrong with public schools today—they are being run by people who are more concerned with social issues than they are with educating our children.
Posted by Fritz on 07/29/03 at 11:17 AMExactly - thankyouverymuch.
Yet, what is a bigger “social issue’ than our attempting to face the future of a democracy being run by a buncha under educated gullibles?
PS Fritz - really enjoyed your pieces on this issue. You had me going with one of them [before coffee]...
Posted by Claire on 07/29/03 at 01:12 PM
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