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Thursday, March 22, 2012

IT'S ALL ABOUT NUMBERS


Tonight was the opening of a powerful and gut-wrenching exhibit at the LYNN MUSEUM featuring stories and photographs of survivors of the KHMER ROUGE and the atrocities of POL POT. There were stories of both survival and the worst of human behavior. Not learning about it, only insures that worst behavior will be a survivor too.

This is not the debut of this exhibit, well most of it. A row of hanging photographs of young kids who gave anecdotes about how difficult it was to learn about this part of this history from family members who had endured it. This part of the exhibit is unique to LYNN and chilling bookend to mug shots of family members.

Former CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE CALVIN ANDERSON brought up a very GOOD point. WHY SHOULD THESE KIDS HAVE TO DEPEND ON THE SURVIVORS TO EDUCATE THESE KIDS ON THIS IMPORTANT PIECE OF HISTORY. DON'T THEY HAVE BOOKS?

Well CALVIN not enough. You see DR. LATHAM has chosen to fill the offices of the administration building instead of the shelves of mostly unmanned libraries in schools lucky enough to have dedicated libraries. Car allowances have been chosen over textbooks.

3 comments:

  1. Apparently he has never been to a museum or listened to oral history . How much richer this kind of learning is...these student are very fortunate to have this opportunity. Students in suburban schools pay for field trip to these enriching activities all the time... About the car expenses, do you expect her to pay for her own gas and car expenses? She travels all over the state and is the CEO of our school system...

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    1. I am afraid you are missing the point. Many of the students were unaware of the struggles their family members had went through because talking about those experiences were to painful for them to talk about.

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    2. To answer to your question, "YES< YES I DO EXPECT HER TO PAY FOR HER OWN CAR". Let her deduct mileage off on her taxes like most other people.

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