THAT (WO-)MAN'S TRYING TO KEEP US DOWN

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What a coup this was! A Dean at Harvard was going to speak in Lynn and it was going to be at FORD SCHOOL. My fellow HIGHLANDS COALITION members were ecstatic. Yes this was a proud day in our fight for the recognition of the need for community schools.

BUT NOOOOOOOO!

No doubt the rafters at FORD would have been filled like it always is whenever there is a community event at this school. This would have been politically dangerous for the Superintendent and certain LSC members.  So it was decided to move this event to Lynn English, that way the turnout could be better controlled and by that I mean WHO turns out. This is important because jobs are on the line. ELECTIONS ARE COMING!

BUT WHAT DO I KNOW? I'm just a poor, disabled poet who has been screaming for a year that the SPECIAL ED. department is in shambles and look what has happened. We are in the precarious position of arguing the degree of just how bad we are.

There is all this talk about how bad parent involvement is but yet when they try to get involved all of these barriers are put in the way. I hear that the reason Dr. Latham gave for moving the venue: THE SCHOOL IS TOO DIRTY.

NICE!

Tell me then, how is it clean enough to provide free breakfast and lunch to neighborhood kids? I guess that's how you keep us poor people in line. A carrot and stick. First you feed us to get us to gather in one place, then us the stick to beat us so we stay in line.