I don't have anything cogent to say about Superme ...

Published: July 1, 2007, 5:54 pm

I don't have anything cogent to say about Superme Court school segregation business. Really, it doesn't affect anything for me. I already work at segregated schools so that's that. Maybe I'll just tell some more stories about the realities of urban schools that wouldn't fly in a white school. Not because poor nonwhite parents don't care about their kids, but they're working too hard cleaning white parents' pools/gardens/kitchens/baby's butts to have a lot of time to advocate or fundraise for the neighborhood schools. And not to say there aren't a lot of poor white people in the US -- there are -- but almost all poor people in LA with school-aged kids aren't white and that's the only segregated situation I can speak to personally.Here's one that came up recently: the schools I've worked in don't have full-time school nurses. I figured this out first when I was tutoring. Some of my kids really couldn't read too well. Some, however, simply couldn't see what they were reading. I would ask

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