Re: another Chicago hero

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/5/2006 7:28:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
jpbottini@adelphia.net writes:

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.
 



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Joe ... What is "practical" about turning away kids who have a  legal right 
to enroll?  Do you think the parents and kids who were  turned away think the 
principal's action was "practical" and that getting turned  away from the 
schoolhouse door somehow advanced their right to an  education?  For a principal to 
turn away children who have a legal  right to enroll is an outrage and 
invites all kinds of abuse.  You  should have learned that from the history of  
segregation.  Does it occur to you that after the children were  enrolled, the 
district might provide additional teachers or make other  arrangements to deal 
with the additional kids, or that maybe the kids and  teachers would cope with 
the larger classes and do fine, or that the  larger good of getting kids in 
school trumps the inconvenience of  enrolling more kids, and that all of these 
are practical and important  lessons in democracy?
 
I have read some ridiculous stuff in here, but to applaud barring the  doors 
of the public schools to children who have a legal right to enroll  absolutely 
takes the cake.
 
Art