Re: another Chicago hero

["joseph p. bottini" <jpbottini@adelphia.net>]

Art:

Often I agree with you.  Not this time.
On a philosophical level you have a valid point.

Look at the practical for one time.

Those that urge 40 kids to a class are denying them their legal right to a
fair and equal opportunity for an education.

Attack them, not the result of their dumb mandates.

Joe Bo 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: ABurke5054@aol.com
Date: 09/05/06 19:36:23
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: [arn-l] another Chicago hero
 
So a principal is a hero because he refused to admit students who had a
legal right to go to school because letting them in would increase class
sizes?   Only FairTest would make such a ridiculous and outrageous claim. 
As if the kids and their parents asked McGreal to keep the kids out and are
now falling on their knees to give thanks for being saved from overcrowding.
 Remember other officials who refused to let kids into the schools -- were
Lester Maddox and George Wallace heroes, too?  Pathetic.  
 
Art
 
In a message dated 9/5/2006 2:53:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, monty@fairtest
org writes:
It appears we have another Chicago hero. According to the Sept 6 Ed Week
(which arrived at my office today), Interim Principal Martin McGreal of Gage
Park HS refused to enroll at least 250 more students, as CPS ordered, 
because doing so would lead to classrooms of more than 40  students. "At
some point, you have to say no to what this system is doing to kids," he
said. The system also "does" to educators: it fired McGreal from his job,
which paid $113,820 per year. 
Monty Neill, Ed.D.