When I helped UPN48's news reporter (and sometimes anchor) McCall Pera set up her weblog during an interview with some of us bloggers last month, I told her she would be good at it. I was right.
Yesterday she taped a TV report on the High Point Choice Plan. Even though her real-job reporting was balanced, the things she learned about what many families are going through because of the plan's lottery component disturbed her, even though she understands about "the greater good"...
"...Out of over a thousand requests, just under 150 kids didn't get their "first choice." Sounds like a pretty good percentage, until you hear from tearful parents who just can't imagine either separating their children from their friends, or finding a way to get their kid to a school that is miles from home (when the school they for years believed their kids would attend is a block away AND when in most cases both parents work AND they already have a child or two at a school nearby), or sending them to a school they truly feel is unsafe. You can only imagine... Lioness...Cubs...Protection. Um...YES! Not even a parent myself, I felt the need to claw someone's eyes out. ...
...From the comfortable spot of not being a parent, I get it. However, again in the lioness role, put my kids in a crappy school and I would be downright scary..."
Read the whole thing (via Cone)
10:50:55 AM 
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