Mary Mitchell faces a problem in her own town, and she’s not so sure those Proviso East expellees didn’t deserve it.
As harsh as that is, it may be the only way to keep Proviso East from succumbing to the problems that have ruined some Chicago public schools.
And the school board president defends triage in solving social problems.
“[T]hese [expellees] are not the students that we should be focusing our resources on. There are 5,000 other students who are coming to school. We are not going to tolerate the kind of violence that was displayed in this case.”
Limited resources. What do you know?

