By Jeff Long and Lisa Black
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO – From Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh to Whoopi Goldberg, national attention focused on the decision to keep the Highland Park High School girls basketball team out of an Arizona tournament because of that state’s controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Talk shows and bloggers across the country jumped on the story Thursday, with Limbaugh telling listeners, “You have a bunch of childish, immature, liberal little adults running this school who care more about what people think of them and what they think of each other than they do about any kid anywhere.”
District 113 administrators hunkered down, refusing to address the firestorm of debate – except through e-mail statements about why they canceled the trip.