Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with interest your recent article ("Toddlers Visit K-School," Dec. 1) on the acute need for child care at the Kennedy School. While organizers were pleased with the number of children who joined us last Wednesday, we would like to draw your attention to the children who could not attend Family Day, particularly those who are separated from their parents out of economic necessity...
Among those absent were children left in foreign countries with relatives, children left in other states with spouses, and the children of those who, because of lack of affordable child care, could not apply to, attend, teach or work at the K-School. We believe that while lack of child care obviously means temporary separation for some parents and children, it may also be a barrier to higher education for others, particularly women and minorities...
Judging people by academic distinctions contributes to the development of a subtle American caste system by making discriminatory judgments about who is a productive member of society. Many people do not attend college or graduate school--whether for reasons of income or inclination--and their intelligence should not be evaluated solely based on that decision...
...perhaps one of the greatest misinterpretations of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, Chavez declared that, "The courts have come a far cry from a decision in 1954 that allowed a young black girl to attend her neighborhood school...
Completely lost on Chavez is that decisions such as Brown, and now Yonkers, do not bring victory with negative prohibitions but with recognition of the massive reconfiguration necessary for society to ensure equality. The courts need to go beyond simply affirming the rights of one person to attend one school...