Year: 2013

Not sold on single-gender school plan

November 2, 2013 Brody No Comments

Is it worth it? Is it wise? Can a district already so strapped for cash that it has to scrounge to keep teacher assistants on the payroll one more year afford to launch a multi-million dollar experiment to save the boys of Durham? Last week, The Herald-Sun reported about a proposed partnership between Durham Public…

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He would not be deterred

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When Julius LeVonne Chambers shook the foundations of intolerance with U.S. Supreme Court cases to force school system desegregation in Charlotte, opponents bombed his car. That didn’t stop him. A civil rights lawyer who also fought employment discrimination, Chambers saw his home and office bombed by enemies too. That didn’t stop him, either. Jack Boger,…

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Maybe more labels are the answer

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Maybe Gov. Pat McCrory and the N.C. Department of Transportation are onto something. Sure, it’s culturally and politically insensitive to start branding people with labels on their driver’s licenses. Right enough, many of the people who would receive these special provisionary licenses are Hispanic immigrants who were brought to this country as children and haven’t…

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The furry Fourth of July kitchen bomb

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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: By Wes Platt I had the baby in his car seat clutched in my left hand as I worked the key in the door of our house while fireworks popped and crackled in the night sky over Watts-Hillandale. I could hear our dog, Huck, barking upstairs. “Probably locked himself…

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