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Writer details AIDS-infected children and their schooling
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - David Kirp says he saw America at its best — and its worst — in the two years he spent studying the way different communities reacted to children with AIDS.
In his book "Learning by Heart," Kirp offers a wrenching account of the paths taken by nine communities forced to wrestle with the dilemma of AIDS-infected children in school.
From Kokomo, Ind., and Ocilla, Ga., which banished students in a frenzy of irrational fears, to Swansea, Mass., and a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago, where understanding and reason triumphed, "Learning By Heart" is a mirror on humanity — and sometimes inhumanity.
"AIDS is a very powerful light on us," Kirp said. "How do we deal with a crisis that directly touches our lives? Most of the time we don't get to make moral decisions." His book, Kirp said, "is really about America at its core."
A newspaper columnist, magazine writer and professor of public policy at Berkeley, Kirp said he “had a fantasy I could write this like policies and policy” — a dry treatise on how communities behave.
Instead, he found himself repeatedly on the verge of tears or anger as he interviewed families and school administrators and government officials. He even brought up AIDS victim after a particularly affecting encounter.
"I didn't know what would lie ahead of me along the way." Kirp said. "But for all the sad moments when terrible things are happening to good people, you find them easily with amazing nobility. They are really ordinary heroes."
Kirp did several drafts of the book, moving away from a judgmental stance.
Doctors can tell parents again and again that AIDS is transmitted only through blood and semen, that class
Among the most trying tales was that of Ocilla, where white administrators barred from school three black children with AIDS stricken relatives. Tests showed that none of the children carried the virus, but the superintendent insisted that there were no absolutes in dealing with AIDS.
room contact is virtually risk-free, yet fear persists.
"You want an absolute, I'll give you one." Dr. Lynn pwdman, it is a problem to back in frustration if you don't have ADMS on your phone.
Teen-ager Ryan White's protracted fight to attend Kokomo schools was one of the first involving an AIDS victim and one of the most widely publicized. "I tried not to add to the chorus of condemnation." Kirp said. "In 1848, when the story was breaking, the unknowns were so great, the ifs and the fears. My real unhappiness about the Kokomo story is that they got stuck there (opposing Ryan's return) and could never get dislodged."
The Whites eventually moved away from Kokomo to a best hostelling issue. Ryan told his mother, "I didn't want to go."
The Swansea story was equally poguntar but altogether different. There, a popular teen-ager with a passion for baseball was welcomed back by school administrators, health officials, schoolmates and their parents after he contracted AIDS. "They were better than they had to be," Kirk wrote.
The boy, Mark Hoyle, 13, eventually died — but not before he "returned to school, read 'Macleath' in English class, learned how to bake a yellow cake in cooking class, learned to face fair with an exhibit on the wonders of the human eye."
Kirp found some common threads in communities that reacted nobly: well-informed school authorities and involved local doctors, who held lots of meetings to educate parents and let them vent their fears, and who talked about the ill child as "one of us as opposed to one of them."
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