aw. Re: Lit Crit 2007

[Michael Lee Bailey]

We just borrowed "All the King's Men" from our local
library, a-and that Sean Penn playing the Huey Long
part was talking about the corruption and lousy
school system even then, so Louisiana's had school
problems for quite a while.

(paranoid stage whisper:  a-and we all know
what They did to Huey Long...)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 08:26 PM
> To: 'Dave Monroe'
> Cc: 'Kai Frederik Lorentzen', pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: aw. Re: Lit Crit 2007
> 
> On 9/20/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/20/07, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The only silver lining I can see from Katrina is that the notoriously
> > > corrupt public school system pretty much collapsed, opening the way
> > > for a whole new world of Charter schools. If we are ever to break the
> > > cycle of poverty her, it has to start there.
> >
> > They haven't worked so well up here, that's for sure ...
> >
> 
> There has been a bit of measurable improvement in the first year (last
> year). That after many year of terrible results. When your at the
> bottom...
> 
> David Morris
>