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?
Blithe Spirit 
It all depends. (1)who provoked who over what? (2)are you sweeping in some bystanders? Unjust penalties set a negative image within the whole community. Are you improving things for the whole in the long run or acting out your power?
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Boots on the ground decide #1. Without them, one cannot run a railroad. You either trust them or you don’t. It’s like an umpire who calls ’em as he sees ’em. Got a better way of running a game? Submit it. Unjust penalties suck, no question. But unanimously concurring school board is not lightly turned down, even by angry parents, who do react spontaneously, do they not? As for poisoning community image, try unpunished attack on one of one ethnicity by many of another and see what that gets you. None of this operates in a vacuum. ACLU et al., butt out. Even Mary Mitchell thinks so; she’s closer to this story than to almost anything else she writes about and so has little taste for indignation. So it goes with all of us, I think.
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