I wrote this posting shortly after the article was published, but I had to cool off sufficiently before I could post it. It’s not often I describe myself as “outraged,” but the situation Quindlen writes about in her column, “Write and Wrong,” outraged me. Perry Meridian High School near Indianapolis fired a teacher who assigned her class a book, Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary, an acclaimed book expressly honored for its success in high school teaching. The administration promptly fired the teacher—apparently the concept of actually teaching students how to think was a bit too radical for this school. I always like Quindlen, and I thank her for letting the national readership of Newsweek learn of this injustice. To see the article, go to http://www.newsweek.com/id/145871 I was fortunate to grow up in a school district (Urbana, Illinois) that believed in learning, and where the parents, the teachers and administrators were united in providing education of value. I assume that they still do.
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