School Boycott On: Meeks

Time's up, the Rev. James Meeks said Thursday.

The three-day boycott is on.

"No more time. The window has expired," Meeks said.

Next Tuesday, the state senator and pastor of Salem Baptist, a South Side megachurch, hopes to bus about 2,000 Chicago Public Schools students to north suburban schools. The students will boycott their first day of school to call attention to school-funding inequities.

As Meeks plowed forward, officials at Winnetka's New Trier High School said they're prepared to welcome the students, who plan to ride 125 buses there and try to enroll.

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[ChiGuy]

New Trier is taking the high road and will welcome the students, because shutting down for the day and leaving not one soul present when the buses arrive, would be used by the manipulators running this asinine circus as further ammunition.

If they actually pull off rounding up 2000 students for this, at what, 60 students per bus, that would be more than 300 buses. Considering the exponential rise in odds when numbers increase, G*d forbid that one or more of these buses gets in some sort of serious accident.

Using 14 to 18 year-olds from both Chicago and New Trier as pawns in the middle of this, is not only unfair, it's unconscionable.
There are other ways to get your point across without involving kids.