Violence in Schools
This was just on my mind today while I was flying above Minneapolis. A few years back, when I was just beginning High School, I believe it was around late August .My 2nd semester class schedule arrived along with the news that I would not be bused. There had been violence in other towns and counties, trouble as far away as Georgia; but in Lakeland, the transition is peaceful. Suprisingly, many of the teachers, instead of students, had been shifted from one school to another. My new algebra teacher was a man very adept at swishing his way across the room, mocking everyone from Albert Einstein to the dweebish host of a popular children’s television program. Black and white, the teachers offered their ridicule as though it were an olive branch. “Here” they said, “this is something we each have in common, proof that we all brothers under the skin”