Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Monica Yant Kinney column: new era hailed in Camden, but the past weighs heavily.(Column)

Byline: Monica Yant Kinney

Sep. 7--The pep rally began 25 minutes late, but why focus on the negative when there was such a positive vibe filling the Tweeter Center yesterday?

Camden teachers are great! Camden students can succeed! If you believe it, you can achieve it! Go Team! This being a pep rally -- cheer up, not down -- there was next to no mention of the pesky cheating scandal that is just about all people think of these days when they think of the Camden School District. Interim Superintendent Leonard Fitts said nada about what dragged him out of retirement in Moorestown (the former "best place to live in America") and back into Camden ...

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