Learning from the tumultuous politics of another century in âThe Age of Acrimonyâ
By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent,Updated April 22, 2021, 5:03 p.m.
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Itâs not what you thought. The period between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt was not a historical wasteland punctuated only by Reconstruction and racial tension, railroads and the accumulation of great riches. The political figures of that age were not all ciphers in facial hair. The American people were not bystanders as the world was roiled by revolution. The country didnât slumber for decades.
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There’s a personal prejudice against public schools that I’ve cooked up over the course of years, and it began when I was a child myself. When I entered into the fifth grade, the Ritalin craze hit, and schools were recommending Vitamin-R be shoved down the throats of every kid who so much as sneezed out of line in class.
Public schools became drug pushers with kids being the recipients. The real reason wasn’t to help kids learn better, it was because they were getting government kickbacks for every child labeled with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. So, when my 5th-grade teacher told my parents I needed to go get tested to see if I had a disorder, my concerned mother did what she was advised, and wouldn’t you know it, I had it. What I really had, was the far more common condition of being a boy. Regardless, they put me on this new miracle drug, and my school got paid.
Trump was acquitted after a several day trial that produced edited and lopsided testimony. The Managers called for witnesses, which opened up floodgates according to some analysts, to have the likes of Pelosi and the Mayor of D.C. testify on topics such as why had the mayor refused National Guardsmen offered by Trump before the protest. Or the Managers needing to prove why the same language used by Democrats did not mean inciting insurrections.
No intent on Trump‘s part to incite an “insurrection” or harm legislators or ridiculous claims of wanting deaths during the protests which turned violent by a bunch of bad actors.
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Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past.
That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century.
But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names in ways big and small help tell the city’s history.
The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.)
Still, in a city that didn’t have a statue of a Black person on public land until 2017, school buildings are among the rare public spaces with any echo of Philadelphia’s Black history.