another excellent column from a friend of mine at the CRP
Micah Grant
Communications Strategist,
California Republican Party
Parents Struggle to Get Their Children into Charters
Nationwide, minority parents are beginning to realize the negative impact public employee unions are having on their children, especially in the inner city. Whether public employee unions realize it or not, they are partly responsible for sabotaging the future of many African-American children who unfortunately do not have a say in where they are educated.
As a product of what is formerly known as South Central Los Angeles, I can attest to the horrid conditions which often distract and obstruct children from receiving the proper education they deserve; gang violence poverty, and urban decay are far from the conditions that our beloved civil rights heroes envisioned for our community when the doctrine of "separate but equal" was struck down in 1964. However, neither did they envision a point where these circumstances would be used as a scapegoat to keep minority students trapped in a failing public school system with teachers who aren't vested in their future.
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