Franklin Flyer is reunited with his mother, an actress, though he soon loses her to yellow fever; in grief, the boy flees school, eventually coming to recognize that wandering is "his way of mourning".
But while school choice incentivizes talented students to flee failing schools for better ones, it also sets up a catch-22: If good students are always leaving for better schools, it becomes increasingly difficult for schools to improve; and if schools never get better, then good students will continue to leave.
All three children had to flee their schools.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]?SIR – You repeat the widely held belief that vouchers will help those students most in need to flee failing schools ("The mayor throws a lifeline", May 10th).
While the measure is intended, in part, to help low-income parents flee failing schools, the report by Policy Analysis for California Education -- a collaboration of professors at Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley -- suggests that the primary beneficiaries may be wealthy private-school students.
The New York City Board of Education is providing about $2,100 per student in federal mental health aid for those who lost neighbors or family members in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, but only a small fraction of that for thousands of students who were forced to flee their schools as debris and bodies fell from the twin towers.
Others fled to schools or mosques".
Even before we had to flee, their schooling had been interrupted.
However, the shock was felt throughout northern Italy, with terrified people fleeing homes, schools and offices as far away as Milan and Venice.
Fleeing their schools on Sept. 11, many witnessed the second plane crash, the people jumping from the towers and the collapse of the buildings.
