Pity Poor Adrian Bushnell By Paul R. Hollrah

Late in the morning of Friday, February 29, Miami (Florida) Edison High School was besieged by dozens of police cars and vans. Officers in riot gear were seen rushing into the building and within minutes live TV film from a WFOR-TV helicopter showed dozens of students being led away in handcuffs. Police officials described the situation as a “large scale disturbance.”

This was not an uprising in a Baghdad market or an attack on a funeral procession in Islamabad. This was an insurrection in an American high school, led by teenage thugs with rap sheets longer than their arms. But what makes this sad event so meaningful is that Miami Edison is typical of thousands of failing secondary schools in cities across the nation.

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