Re: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism HOME SCHOOLING - OFF-TOPIC STORY

["Don R." <don.ro@verizon.net>]

You must be talking about Boston with all of the busing problems it had and
still has. I understand the Boston rednecks are still raising sand over the
Federal busing order.

By the way, is Boston still considered to be part of the old South?

Don R.
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Subject: RE: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism HOME SCHOOLING - OFF-TOPIC
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> During the early 70s I spent about 18 months covering what passed for
> "education" in Prince George's County, Md, the first county south of the
> city, the county to which blue collar whites had fled, and to which
> middle class blacks were just then beginning to flee - a county mired in
> its Southern past; a county just then struggling with forced bussing....
>
> Well, one of the "ladies" who always showed up at the school board
> meetings to rant and rave about the evils of the Feds, the evils of
> bussing, and the evils of Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery," which -
> horrors! - was in a collection of short stories one grade was reading,
> was "home schooling" her kids and a couple of other kids. For some
> reason she decided that she could trust me, probably because she so
> thoroughly hated the Post's regular education writer and saw me as a
> young push-over. And so she agreed to have me write about her home
> schooling effort.
>
> I spent a day in this woman's basement, where she "educated" about a
> half-dozen kids using McGuffey Readers and materials prepared by groups
> I don't even want to think about. And then I wrote a long feature story
> about the day, a story that ran on page one of the Wash Post.
>
> Well, I was convinced that the story made her sound like the racist,
> fascist, nut job she was - using her own words to convey that. My
> colleagues on the paper also read the story in that light. But when the
> piece ran - she absolutely loved it! Why? Because I quoted her
> accurately and let her tell her own story. So believing that she was a
> crusader for Truth,Justice, and Jesus's American Way, she was convinced
> that the story showed her in a good light - when in fact it showed her
> to be exactly what she really was. :-)
>
> End of story.
>
>
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> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of S Dimitrov
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] States' Rights and Racism
>
>
> My favorite code term is "home schooling." Every cracker, er, I mean
> gentleman and gentle lady, that I've come across espousing the practise
> was flaming non-white person challenged. I hope that was the PC way of
> saying it.  Slobodan Dimitrov
>
>
> Robert Marvin wrote:
>     Despite racist use of the term 'State's Rights' as a  code, not
> every use of
> > that term has to be racist and I'm certain that that was not Marc's
> > intent.
> > >
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