But we luuuvvv our kids, of course.
Love them enough to give TRILLIONS to WARS and BANKS!!
Also see: Shuttering Schools in Boston
"Students, advocates mourn targeted schools; Academies were part of bold experiment" by James Vaznis, Globe Staff | October 3, 2008
The Business and Public Service academies were part of a bold experiment launched eight years ago - with millions of dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - that broke down large traditional high schools into smaller learning communities to boost student performance.
Here is what the kids had to say:
They trickled out of Noonan Business Academy yesterday afternoon, as if leaving a relative's wake. Some of the teens embraced one another; a couple of girls wiped away tears. And then one boy walked up, opened his notebook, and pointed to a drawing of two gravestones - one for Noonan Academy and the other for the Academy of Public Service, two small high schools at the Dorchester Education Complex that could close as part of Superintendent Carol R. Johnson's sweeping plan to shutter and consolidate some Boston schools while expanding others.
Yvette Brown, a 16-year-old junior: "If they are going to take our school away from us, it will be like taking another life away. Everybody today was talking about dropping out."
Kadie Lamarre, a 13-year-old freshman: "It's not fair they are taking this away from us. I don't want to go to school anywhere else." --more--"
Trillions for wars and banks... (oh, I'm tired of typing it).
