“Some people think in order to teach...
“Some people think in order to teach young people like yourselves you need a baseball bat or a bullhorn. You don’t need that at Jordan High School.”
--Los Angeles school board member Warren Furutani, one of several adult and student speakers who used the occasion of a visit to the school by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to declare that Jordan High is not a mirror image of the often-violent community that surrounds it.
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