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Show Rose (1/20/83) page 14 ~r. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R In what sense of the word? In terms of whether the community had ever before done as you did. I don't think so. I don't believe ••• I had never heard of it. I believe I would have. So, you pretty much figured you were the first from the Jewish community to have approached the school system on this issue? I believe there was an isolated case here and there through the years where a parent has handled it on her own, his or her own, on their own, and then it circulated the com~unity, but I don't think there was ever any kind of organized effort to do this. Bow organized? Well, I mean, somebody at least under the guise of representing th Jewish community. And that's, in fact, what you and Robert Bergman were doing? Yeah, we weren't doing it alone, don't misunderstand ~e. We had i a pretty good committee, Bob Fi~ing was on the committee that made guidelines with us, but we tried to establish OUR guideline -.,. for \ this community to be governed by and we d istrt buted in 2 years to the schools. What invalidated us was that one of our gu1delin was so strongly and so stringently put that it invalidated the whole sheet. You see, the people who were on the committee were 'c.. r 1, ,, ,-_ , - - , a lay committee, and they were £;lag~ prejudices into the guide-lines as distinguished from the law, and it was very difficult fo me as a lawyer to get my guidelines through without every so ofte catering to what it was they wanted. The Jewish community? My committee, my lay co~~ittee. |
