What Makes Rabbit Run?

A Brampton high school principal has bowed to a parent's complaint and yanked "To Kill a Mockingbird" from its curriculum because it contains the word "nigger". School for Thought is amazed to see such responsiveness from a public school employee, since none of our requests - for example, for things like higher academic standards, uniforms, real standardized testing, no tolerance for bullying, and so on - has ever been honoured. Perhaps we'd get further if we couched our requests in terms of political correctness, as opposed to quality education....

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