Land Grab
Here you go: Battle for school site taints day.
Fulton County, Georgia, is going to take private land meant for a Jewish high school and make a Public elementary school out of it.
The Fulton County school system wants to buy the Weber School site and use the land to build a new elementary school. In a strongly worded letter sent earlier this month, the school district indicated that unless Weber sold the property by today, the school board would use eminent domain to obtain the land.
This is not Kelo, but still it is a travesty of justice to see something like this happen. There must be a way to have both schools co-exist, or to have the elementary school somewhere else in the neighborhood.
Why is it a travesty? Because a high school that will be morally committed to turning out high quality adults will be preempted by a holding cell for young kids. With everything wrong with public schools today, more of them is not the answer.
This is a case of the Dog in the Manger. Read up on it if you have forgotten your moral lessons from childhood.