- Well, apparently it's special education and kids-with-disabilities day at the Strib office. The nefarious Katherine Kersten proves she could have a bleeding heart if she really wanted to; Nick Coleman offers a gloomy take on Holy Angels, a school that according to him hates kids with special needs (psych: they don't have the facilities and booted out a young man with muscular dystrophy, yet accepted his able-bodied twin brother). And in one of the Strib's famous synergasmic moments, they tie it all to a state auditor report on education funding in this fine state, because special education spending has risen more than 30 percent in the past few years, while funding from our state's leaders (read: Teflon Tim Pawlenty) has been frozen or laughably underfunded (laughably, that is, if it wasn't so tragic).
- Slow down, people! Twenty is plenty!
- Last week, Vulcanus Rex - leader of St. Paul's notoriously annoying and misogynistic Vulcan Krewe - plead guilty to groping three female servers at a bar. Those dudes just need to get a clue...and drop the 10 a.m. fire truck runs to Billy's. Laura Billings offers a few other tips.
- Another sign of the apocalypse: Soucheray covers Michael Jackson.
- Self-congratulatory message: City Pages lists The Pie-Eyed Picayune among its Minnesota blogs. For we are jolly good fellas.
Monday, June 20, 2005
Daily Duty
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I have some friends who went to Holy Angels as well (and I played high school sports against them growing up). Money certainly isn't the problem there. Of course, it does raise the question: How much should a private school invest to cater toward an extreme minority of their population? Should a school be handicapped accessible? Certainly. Many private schools aren't, and would need to build brand new facilities since their buildings tend to be historic. There's also the fact that many big donors often earmark their cash so it goes to particular items or events (i.e. new turf for the football field). I don't mean to be a Holy Angels apologist; there's really no reason they should have told the kid he couldn't go. There are usually larger forces at work, however.
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