Elite School For Disadvantaged Children Reverses Course, Will Let In Student With AIDS (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
Oh is it Tuesday Nice Time already? Then it is time to have a story about someone NOT being AWFUL! (With a little "guidance" from the Justice Department.) And that is why you are about to read about a 13-year-old boy who is being admitted to the elite Milton Hershey School (yes, funded by the candy company's trust) for disadvantaged kids even though he has AIDS, and they had denied him entry based just on that fact, out of deference to the health and safety of their other students, but now somebody (the Justice Department) explained the law to them, and they are letting the boy in and they are sorry they didn't at first, and man, Big Government just ruins stuff for everyone (who wants to discriminate against a 13-year-old boy with AIDS), doesn't it?
We will ignore the part of the story where the school defends its previous denial of the boy -- again, based solely on his HIV status, they admitted it -- and we will ignore every other part of the story that we want to ignore, as well. What part of TUESDAY NICE TIME do you not understand???
"Although we believed that our decisions regarding Abraham Smith's [a pseudonym] application were appropriate, we acknowledge that the application of federal law to our unique residential setting was a novel and difficult issue," Colistra said. "The U.S. Department of Justice recently advised us that it disagrees with how we evaluated the risks and applied the law. We have decided to accept this guidance."
Look at those thugs in the government, telling a private school what students it can deny based on federal anti-discrimination law! Where does it get off, and etc? OH RIGHT, it gets off on ensuring equal rights for all Americans or something, pffft. God, it is like it is not even 1989 anymore. Whatever.
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Elite School For Disadvantaged Children Reverses Course, Will Let In Student With AIDS (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
well now i have to go listen to team america again for sure.
A few years ago I looked at the financial reports for the Hershey Trust, and its not a pretty picture. The Trust receives millions of dollars in dividends from Hershey stock, and then fully supports the students at the school.
The problem is there just aren't that many students at the school. Again, it was a few years ago, but from memory the Trust has several hundred thousands of income for each student. It could be sending them to Harvard or Stanford - with plenty of money left over for thousands more students.
The Board of Directors is "self perpetuating" - meaning the existing directors elect new ones. This is a formula for an old boy network.
Some day the State of Pennsylvania and the IRS are really going to tear into this, and the results are going to be ugly, indeed.