It was enough to make you want to cheer.
On the Upper West Side last week, a middle school principal stood before a crowd of angry white parents — furious about a plan to help the poorest students gain access to some of the city’s most desirable schools — and told them they were wrong.
“There are kids that are tremendously disadvantaged,” Henry Zymeck, principal of the Computer School, told the parents, his voice filled with the disappointment of an educator whose pupils had betrayed their most sacred lesson. “To compare these students and say, ‘My already advantaged kid needs more advantage, they need to be kept away from those kids!’ is tremendously offensive to me.”
[For more on this story by Mara Gay, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...s-new-york-city.html]
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