Update on Mourning Joe Scarborough

On his website, he describes his fundraising for John McDonogh High School in New Orleans as “raising awareness for volunteerism!”

So, an institution founded on a threat to jail the parents if they fail to enroll their children is a model of voluntarism.

John McDonogh High has an interesting history. From Wikipedia:

At 10:30 a.m. on April 14, 2003, two men entered the school property via gaps in the fence armed with an AK-47 and a semi-automatic pistol. Immediately after students and faculty entered the school gymnasium, the two men shot at 15-year-old Caveman Williams at least 18 times. Three female students were wounded, and a pregnant senior was trampled by a stampede of students. Jonathan Williams died at the scene and the two perpetrators immediately fled the school campus. The injured recovered.

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