However, since I’m now involved: I think most everyone would look at your sentence of “It’s not persecution, it’s just a simple matter of expecting some common courtesy– if a child is too young to exercise it on his own, then his parents shouldn’t feel attacked because others expect them to exercise it for him.” and say “Absolutely!”

The gray area – that leads to conflict and endless blog discussions – is what’s the definition of “common courtesy” The additional pressures and stresses that parent is under compared to the non-childed onlooker, will guarantee that their definitions will be different. No? Or is it the same regardless? And if so, who determines it. Sorta hard to dig, IMO.

P.S. Hopefully you know that I respect and actively search out opinions different from my own, and try my hardest not to delegate others with different backgrounds and opinions to ‘2nd-class citizen status’. Also I agree with STG’s statement above wholeheartedly.

In the simple setting of a classroom when lessons are conducted “by committee” aka group work, how many parent/student complaints are voiced or just thought along the lines of “He’s (I’m) doing all the work and we get the same grade.” (Do I need a ? here?)

But with the history shared it does sound like the design plan may have been sabotaged or at the least modified after the committee plan was submitted.

The pool is what we have and sounds like Jabari Cole will aggressively make improvements, even those that require finding money to complete. I say let the administration roll with this ball.