Nancy

The following article, which appeared in the 03/12/2001 issue of the Harvard
Crimson, has been sent to you from Nancy:

03/12/2001
Abolishing High School
Decline and Fall
By ROSS G. DOUTHAT
This time, his name is Charles Andrew Williams, and he is 15 years old. He has
a slender frame and a soft, sad-looking face, and in photographs he seems young
and lost, and yes, even innocent. He isn't innocent, though. Not since Monday,
March 5, when he took his father's gun to school and fired it 30 times at his
teachers and classmates, wounding 13 people and killing two...

For the rest of the story please visit The Harvard Crimson at:
http://www.thecrimson.com/opinion/article.asp?ref=11300

Copyright 2000 The Harvard Crimson, Inc.

Angela

I loved this article. It is too bad that mainstream society can't see the
benefits of making school optional.

Angela in Maine. Unschooling Mom to two beautiful daughters. "Play is our
brain's favorite way to learn." Unknown
www.geocities.com/autonomousangela


03/12/2001
Abolishing High School
Decline and Fall
By ROSS G. DOUTHAT
This time, his name is Charles Andrew Williams, and he is 15 years old. He
has
a slender frame and a soft, sad-looking face, and in photographs he seems
young
and lost, and yes, even innocent. He isn't innocent, though. Not since
Monday,
March 5, when he took his father's gun to school and fired it 30 times at
his
teachers and classmates, wounding 13 people and killing two...

For the rest of the story please visit The Harvard Crimson at:
http://www.thecrimson.com/opinion/article.asp?ref=11300

Copyright 2000 The Harvard Crimson, Inc.





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