Fraser parents aren't going away quietly, despite our downtown representative on the school board insisting that CCSD will now begin to better education our inner-city youth. In Monday's paper it states Ms. Toya Green believes "the only way to offer a better education to students is to try something different."
My hat is off to Fraser parents, especially Latonya Gamble. According to today's Post and Courier, Fraser parents are seeking an opinion from the Office for Civil Rights as to whether their children are being racially discriminated against with regards to school closings. "Fewer than 75 white students attend the five schools that will be closed."
While CCSD claims they set up criteria and the targeted schools (excluding Charlestowne Academy) fit it, it makes you wonder. In a budget crisis, everyone should be making sacrifices. Yet who else is?
Ms. Gamble "questioned how the district planned to improve education for students by sending them to other failing schools." Sounds like a damn good question to me.
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I don't understand how the district polls Academic Magnet parents and faculty to determine if they want to build a new school or not, yet they don't think it's necessary to "poll" the Fraser parents as to whether they should move their children around like boxes or not. Racial discrimination? How can you think not?
The march will be Monday beginning at 3 pm at Fraser.
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