Screenshot of Steve Goldstein's 'Breaking News' email
Marion Bolden admits she has learned a lesson from the yearbook kiss brouhaha.
As Garden State Equality reported in a 'breaking news' email yesterday evening, Bolden went to the East Side HS commencement rehearsal and apologized to Andre Jackson in front of the entire graduating class. (If you can find the news on the GSE website, please let me know -- I can't.)
And, Goldstein notes, in a phone conversation with him 'moments ago', Bolden agreed to meet at least four times a year with a task force on diversity and sensitivity that Goldstein is putting together with Newark's LGBTI community.
Goldstein also quotes Bolden as saying the yearbook incident is 'my lowest moment since I've been Superintendent.'
That's saying something, recalling the fight Sharpe James picked with her a few years ago that almost cost her her job.
Bolden seems to have drawn some 'life lessons', as teachers like to say, from the episode. She should be acknowledged for that, but don't fear -- there'll be some school official near you f***ing up in the near future.
Goes with the human condition, dontcha know.
Other coverage --
- Today's Ledger: "Gay teen receives an official apology"
- Today's NY Times: "Meetings Promised After Controversy"
- June 25: "Gay Yearbook Smooch - Bolden's Bad Call"
- June 26: "Bolden relents on gay kiss but still stumbles"
-- Dan Damon
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