This story on today’s NPR Saturday Edition never mentions the judge whose ruling preceded the death watch for the public schools of Kansas City.
By coincidence Duluth has a Federal Court Building named in his honor.
By further coincidence he is an ever present though often remote figure in the book I’ve been writing.
Buy further, further coincidence my Dad’s old high school Southwest High is mentioned but in not a very complimentary light.
Its a small world.
It might be argued that this 1985 decision shows a “liberal” version of same kind of self righteous hubris that riddles today’s Republican Party and that led to its taking the place of the Democratic Party in the national political firmament. Now the pendulum is swinging back.
This sorry example of a grand building program to reinvigorate a failing school system leading instead to its deterioration might not be lost on the people of Duluth who have watched their own schools falter after the initiation of the Red Plan.
