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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (24216)	8/23/2001 8:08:00 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

That story about Cheremoya school was fascinating. If anyone hasn't read it, I recommend it. It's this microcosm of Americana and all our political problems. You mentioned separate but equal so I suppose you're looking for comments on that. I think it makes sense to keep the hillside kids together for the first year or two. I think the language issue is compelling and so they'd have natural friends in their class. Once there's a critical mass of hillside kids in the school, kids should be divided up some other way. I don't see anything wrong with easing them in. It's important though, that they not get any special resources. It's also important for the state to give the school some extra resources so that none of the parties would be able to blame the change for any perceived shortfalls they saw. I thought this would make a super movie. I thought through most of the story it would be a classic tragedy, but maybe not. My other reaction was that this situation cried out for a professional facilitator. I've worked similar situations. Disinterested and trained facilitators can work through many of the problems. Normally, the school would engage the facilitator. In this case, the faculty was part of the problem so the state would have to engage them. Fascinating. Of course, the name of the school made my mouth water. I first had a cheremoya in Africa. Actually it was an atemoya, but close enough. I love them, but they're hard to find around here and very expensive. I get them whenever I'm in Florida. Karen