Why I love public education
Kevin Gowen
Angela, who skipped high school and went straight to college last year, has
earned her associate's degree and is on her way to a bachelor's - but she
can't have the sheepskins because she never got a high school diploma.
Even worse, the gifted girl's proud dad is being investigated by child
protective services for alleged educational neglect - for letting his
daughter go to college.
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Angela's father, retired teacher Daniel Lipsman, figures she'll have her
bachelor's degree wrapped up by the time she turns 17 and will then get
three diplomas at once - including the GED.
"It's very demoralizing," said Lipsman, who vowed that he'll "go to prison
before my daughter goes to a city high school."
Albany Supreme Court Justice Bernard Malone blamed Lipsman for steering his
brainy daughter to college after she completed eighth grade at Public School
187 in Washington Heights.
"Angela was not legally free to skip high school," Malone wrote this week in
ruling against Angela.
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Kevin Gowen
"[T]he Constitution appears to be fundamentally at odds with progressive
ideals and visions."
- Progressive Critical Race Studies "scholar" Robin West in a 1992 law
journal article (72 B.U.L.Rev. 765) that appears in abbreviated form in at
least one constitutional law textbook used in American law schools and
explains that the Constitution's emphasis on protecting the liberty of
individuals is incompatible with the goals of the progressive left.