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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1985
Protests continue in N.Y. AIDS case
United Press International
NEW YORK — Nearly 10,000 children skipped classes for a second day yesterday and hundreds of irate parents picked Queens schools to protest a city decision allowing a second-grader born with AIDS to attend school.
The boycott appeared to weaken since Monday when about 18,000 children stayed out of schools in the borough. Some parents said they were confronted with the dilemma of whether to disrupt their children's education or allow them to go to school with a child afflicted with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
More than 650 parents and children demonstrated outside at least nine schools in Queens, carrying signs reading "We're Not Callous, Just Cautious," "Keep AIDS Out Of School," and "Chancellor — We Don't Want to Take a Chance."
About 20 percent of the children attending school in Districts 27 and 29 skipped classes yesterday in the nation's largest school system. Officials said 9,750 children of the 49,430 students registered in the districts were absent.
The high tranuancy rate was a record in both districts, officials said.
At P.S. 63, the focus of some of the largest and most raucous parent protests, nearly 800 of the 1,000 students skipped classes.
Many parents have vowed to keep their children out of school until the city reverses a special Board of Education panel decision allowing a 7-year-old child who was born with AIDS to continue attending class.
Officials have refused to say which one of the city's 623 elementary schools the unidentified AIDS victim attends, but insisted the child was not endangering other students.
Parents have said they are afraid their children will come in contact
with the student and be contaminated by the deadly, incurable disease.
"I don't want to take a chance," said Cathy Scherer, pointing out that her third-grader and sixth-grader would eat lunch with the AIDS-afflicted child if that student attended P.S. 90.
She said she would not send her son and daughter back to school unless she was assured there was no danger to them.
"If the child has the disease, maybe the best place for the child is home," Scherer said. "I'm not discriminating against the child, but why jeopardize other children's safety and well being?"
The boycott waged against 63 public schools in Queens. On the first day of school Monday, about 18,000 students were kept home by their parents.
Elsewhere across the city, attendance has been normal, with 98 percent of the 946,000 students
Pat Signorelli sent her two sons back to school yesterday — with trepidation.
showing up at the 913 schools.
"I cannot afford private tutoring," she said. "Was I scared? Honestly, yes. I was frightened."
She said she told her children, ages 7 and 9, "not to pass gum around, not to eat the same food, and to wipe the toilet seat before they sit down. My older boy was frightened. He knows AIDS is a bad disease."
At least one doctor supported the parents' concerns, saying officials should wait until more is known about the disease before deciding to send a child with AIDS to school.
Dr. Richard Restak, a neurologist who writes a column in the Washington Post, said he believed the safety of society should supersede the rights of AIDS patients in cases such as these.
Koch easily wins primary in his quest for third term
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NEW YORK — New York Mayor Edward Koch racked up a record majority in the Democratic primary yesterday on his way to a third term as mayor of the nation's largest city.
But Bea Dolen, executive director of the Board of Elections, said Koch's margin was headed for a modern city record.
Koch had 70 percent of the vote,
City Council President Carol
Bellamy 16 percent and Assemblerman Herman Farrell 10 percent with 36 percent of the ballots counted. Only 31 percent of the city's 2.1 million Democrats went to the rolls.
Koch and Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit were seeking record-book re-elections in the big cities they took over during the bleak days of the 1970s.
Koch, seeking a third four-year term of a city that was near bankruptcy and considered ungovernable a decade ago, and Young, running for a fourth term in the automaking center some called "Murder City," were the odds on favorites in the first large mayoral primaries of the autumn.
Koch was greeted by television cameras when he arrived to vote in Greenwich Village. Saying he felt "ebullient," the mayor conceded he was anxious, "but not overly anxious."
In Detroit, early turnout was light with the Elections Commission reporting that only about 3.8 percent of the city's 610,572 voters cast ballots early in the day.
The peppery Koch, 60, is seeking to join Florielle LaGuardia and Robert Wagner Jr. as the only survivors of three mayoral elections in the nation's largest city.
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