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Also, some black leaders in the '60s sought control over their local public schools, which prefigures the current enthusiasm many African-Americans have for running their own charter schools within the public-school system.
Blacks resent Hispanics' perceived hoarding of scarce public-school funds.
True, there is a risk that in promoting public-school alternatives, neighborhood schools will be left with the most difficult-to-educate children and not enough resources to meet the task.
Gone would be the used-bookstore owner, the public-school teacher, the family that's been in the same Upper West Side building for 100 years, the office manager (a guy I actually know) who attends every performance of the Metropolitan Opera.
Isn't it a little silly that the same sort of people who bitch about school prayer and public-school vouchers spent on religious education are ready to lay down their lives to protect the government's right to subsidize art that desecrates religious figures in the most sophomoric way imaginable?