Blue Owl Brewing
Always There's the Backlash ...
RECEIVED Fri., Feb. 16, 2007
Dear Editor,
Goodness, the Ann Richards School has yet to even open its doors, and already the backlash has begun. (If girls are getting something, then boys must be losing out! Are we gonna let 'em get away with that?) If AISD Superintendent Pat Forgione can truly stomach the heartbreaking effects of a Webb Middle School diaspora by offering up a boys' school in its place, then let him bring forward the available research showing that single-sex education for boys has any positive effect on their schooling. Positive effect – not neutral. ("Forgione's BEST-Laid Plan for Closing Webb,” News, Feb. 16.)
And while the TEA may argue that it's caring and responsible to tell Webb children and their parents that their school isn't good enough for them and so it must close, it's just more of the same, failing, punitive responses to the same problems. When will they ever learn?
Goodness, the Ann Richards School has yet to even open its doors, and already the backlash has begun. (If girls are getting something, then boys must be losing out! Are we gonna let 'em get away with that?) If AISD Superintendent Pat Forgione can truly stomach the heartbreaking effects of a Webb Middle School diaspora by offering up a boys' school in its place, then let him bring forward the available research showing that single-sex education for boys has any positive effect on their schooling. Positive effect – not neutral. ("Forgione's BEST-Laid Plan for Closing Webb,” News, Feb. 16.)
And while the TEA may argue that it's caring and responsible to tell Webb children and their parents that their school isn't good enough for them and so it must close, it's just more of the same, failing, punitive responses to the same problems. When will they ever learn?
Roseana Auten
Austin Chronicle education editor, 1992-1997
Austin Chronicle education editor, 1992-1997
