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Show Rose (1 / 20 /8 3) nage 3 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R that she was going to rewrite that play. So, here was the mother up against the PTA, the whole PTA; all of these programs are hoisted upon the schools by the PTA here, you see. The school people are walking on eggs, a lot of them are, a lot of them are just as opinionated and arbritary as the PTA's are, but there are a lot of fair minded people here who wouldn't want to go that far but they don't dare buck the PTA's. So, about the time it was a dirty kettle of fish, is about the time the mother appealed to the Councel, and the Councel threw it to me, and if I'm not mis-taken, that was about the first affair that I actually got involved in, you know, in quarreling with the school about it. Did you want to get involved? I was tickled to death to get involved. To a large degree, I'm an about person. I knew, long before these 5 years, I knew what was going on in the school, but the schools never had an impact on me because I never had any children going to school here. The _s ',\',l. Jewish community had reached what you call a~thick skin that t¢-i~¢ c\~ ~ just~1 over their shoulder. You talk to people in this community that have gone to school that are in their 40's and 50's today, and they've gone to school here and they say it didn't have any impact on them at all, a n~ ~ ~ 11 1 r- r-t'0J ' i\d ..._ (' () \;; .. Do you believe that? It's possible. You can't get absolute about saying do I believe that nobody was impacted,or that everybody was impacted I should say, nor do I believe that nobody was impacted. So'IIeplace in the middle is the truth. You have Gail Chotchi, for example, writing a letter that she's going in to the schools and ••• I'm sure that |
