J. CURRY - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/125796.xml J. CURRY - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Hunger Strike By New York Parent - Fights Public School Discriminatory Practices http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/01/prweb198944.htm After encountering discrimination and bias occuring at his son's public school (PS 87, Manhattan), New York parent, J. Curry, decided to honor the memory of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King and help students around the country, by going on a hunger strike to showcase "modern day lynching". "I feel it is my obligation to ensure that every child has the mandated educational resources necessary to learn; and no child or parent should be punished for bringing cases of discrimination, bias, abuse to the school's attention. Yet to date, since I spoke out about such grievances, a teacher has vilified him in front of my son's class, he has been searched, I have been verbally attacked, and more. Thus as the world reflects on the life of Martin Luther King it is truly astonishing that in 2005, many poor and/or minority male students are still treated as 3rd class citizens in schools that we, the public, pay for with taxpayer money". (PRWeb Jan 20, 2005)

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