As I posted on June 9, Sotheby’s will be auctioning the Marting Luther King, Jr. Collection on beginning on June 30. That said, I was not surprised to read this article in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution which discusses the potential buyers for the King Collection. Former Atlanta mayor, and personal friend of King, Andrew Young has pretty much issued a challenge to the city of Atlanta to purchase the papers, saying “This is a cheap city if it does not come up with enough money to keep that heritage here.”

I was actually surprised to find out that the collection hadn’t been left to Morehouse College (King’s Alma Mater) or added to the items that are kept at the King Center. Where the collection will end up; however, remains to be seen.

Photos of some of the items in the collection can be viewed here. Readers, where would you like to see the collection end up?

…in separate classrooms. This article talks about the growing trend of same-sex classrooms, and outlines some of the arguments for and against it.

I saw the same sex classrooms at work while doing a summer program with the Sunflower County Freedom Project. At first I was uncertain as to how well it would work, but it worked very well, particularly with the middle-school aged students that we were working with. As we all know, the adolescent/pre-teen/early teen age group is one that is just a bundle of emotions with hormones in overdrive. In my opinion, having the students separated allowed them to focus more on their work, and not trying to impress their boyfriend/girlfriend/prospective boopiece while in class. After seeing it in action, I was very impressed, and I would definitely support it in other classroom settings (ie: the public school arena).

So, what do y’all think? How would you feel about same-sex classrooms?