School vouchers are a quick way to correct racial injustice
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Brian Murray-Dalrymple moved his family to Weston eight years ago for the excellent school system for his five children. He is pictured in front of the high school holding a sign he made for a Black Lives Matter protest in Weston on June 7.
When I was in first grade, I was mistakenly given an eighth-grade portion of food that I could not possibly finish. As I was presenting my uneaten portion to the woman at the garbage disposal, a redoubtable nun towering over me said, “Joseph, the pagan babies in Africa are starving and you’re wasting that good food.”
In the Suburbs: The irony of personal loss mixed with a school tragedy
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Steven Gaynes
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Eight years have passed and the day is as vivid as it was when so much changed.
My mother died at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 in Chicago. I was subbing that day at Fairfield Warde High School, as was my older daughter Stacey, and we received a lot of support from colleagues, which made processing mom’s death less painful.
But how ironic was it to learn barely two hours later that 20 beautiful children and six educators had been murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, less than 30 minutes away? Adding this tragic event to a day already filled with personal sadness, I will never forget the void I have felt for the past eight years.