Monday, January 26 _________________________ One Day of Celebration [journal] A paragraph from Jonathan Kozol's expose that depressed the hell out of me: Students begin Bethune in kindergarten and remain here through eighth grade. Eighth grade graduation, here as elsewhere in Chicago, is regarded as a time for celebration, much as twelfth grade graduation would be celebrated in the suburbs. So there are parties, ball gowns and tuxedos, everything that other kids would have at high school graduation. "For more than half our Children," says the principal, "This is the last thing they will have to celebrate." posted by joe | permalink | |

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