The school superintendent and Rosa Parks

John says Thomas Payzant was right not to cave in and close schools today, because, he says, the planned march really has little to do with her civil disobedience:

... This call for a day off from school to honor Rosa Parks was really an attempt to get some numbers into a march set up to promote everything but the civil rights icon. In fact, she gets sub-head position on the webpage for the event, under the header: Troops Out Now. And Turner's blackmail attempt is disgraceful. ...