When did support groups become an essential and necessary function of education?
About the same time we started realizing that we had to coddle their little self esteems or they might grow up not to be perfectly happy.
But to be fair, the schools are, in many small communities, centers of community activity. Used to be the churches, back when everybody went to one church, but less so now. But the school is a large building built at public expense with meeting rooms, gyms, auditoriums, etc. that are only used 7 hours or so a day. It was natural that student groups which were outside the curriculum (started with thing like photography club, model trains club, etc.) and community members needing places to meet glommed onto that space they had already paid for. There are a large number of groups using out school after hours, and I don't see anything wrong with that. It is, after all, the community's building.
The rub comes in the USSC decision that if you let one group use it you have to let all groups use it on the same basis. |
