The Ponderosa: Boston Kids Get a Huge Break!

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Boston Kids Get a Huge Break!

Rivera won't lead Boston schools

(January 24, 2007) — Rochester school Superintendent Manuel Rivera has chosen not to lead Boston schools.

“It’s unfortunate that Boston won’t be able to utilize his skills and talents,” Board of Education Vice President Malik Evans said today, confirming what he was told by Rivera. “I respect his personal decision.”

Rivera, could not be reached for comment. Sources within the district say that Rivera has accepted a position in Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration.

Rivera, is still leaving the City School District later this year.

“He’s not going to be the superintendent as of July. The search still continues as far as we’re concerned. We accepted has resignation as of July,” Evans said.

If you lived in Rochester, you'd understand why parents of school age kids in Boston should be dancing in the streets tonight.

New York's loss (as if we needed any more excuses to flee South) is Boston's gain.

The Ponderosa

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Boston Kids Get a Huge Break!

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