Sunday, April 20, 2008
No English, No Spanish
The Burke middle school kids have been screwed again. There are 8th graders who have no English teacher. They haven't had a certified English teacher since January. And the kids who thought they were actually going to get a chance to receive a credit for Spanish lost that as well. Their Spanish teacher walked out several weeks ago. How do we tolerate this? Where are the civil rights activists? Where are the community members with a conscience? Better yet, where is our representative on the school board when we need her? If Mt. Pleasant students were dealt this situation, I assure you those parents would be heard loud and clear. Are we all just too beaten down to stand up for what's right?
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Dot Scott and Joe Darby should be concerned that the students at Burke High School are being denied access to properly certified teachers while Buist with its 20% or less minority enrollment gets this and far more. Ms. Scott and Mr. Darby remain silent about uncertified instructors at the new Burke but they are hopping mad about the Math and Science Charter School being allowed to set up trailers in the backyard of an empty old Rivers. What's wrong with this picture? Aren't they missing the point?
Evidently this is a "no English, no Spanish, no problem" to the NAACP-
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