The irony of this piece is that parents from all communitie
s do have the right to demand more from education. It is a public system; schools are there to serve the public and this service starts at the top--the board of education are elected so that the public can have a say in what happens in their schools, and there are board meetings for the public to voice their concerns. What happened to empowering the parents to vote? I understand that the school is a failing one, but all we know is that the group went around getting parents to sign a petition to create a charter school. Don't be fooled, there is more to this story than meets the eye.
What is not discussed in this article is that parents in poor, urban communitie
s, such as in Compton, have historical
ly been silent and silenced and have accepted the education system in their communitie
s due to institutio
nalized racism and an ethnic, linguistic
, racial and educationa
l level divide between the teachers, administra
tors and curriculum
, and the community.
My feeling is that if this movement empowers parents to take part in our public educationa
l system, and in their children's lives to make their education more socially and academical
ly meaningful and transforma
tive, then more power to them. However, if this movement is just another way to support the creation of charter schools, then this will be just one more example of the same problems wrapped up in a new name.
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