> > Actually its more like "if we can get this charter passed, we can have our own private school and not have to pay for it....screw the rest of 'em".
> Do you seriously want to publicly say something like that about people
Having observed them and heard of their behavior recently, that's exactly how I would characterize them. At a PTA meeting someone recently asked a SPCS (the new charter) supporter giving info at a table, why they didn't want to send their kids to the existing charter school and their response was "Have you seen that place, it's a sea of black faces".
They've sneaked this proposal through without involving the community or making substantive attempts to involve the city and the school committee. A huge number of the very active and civically involved parents in the city were completely blindsided by this. They're trying to steamroll it through without concern for the rest of the community. There are other options whereby they could start a charter under the umbrella of the school committee, but they are butt-hurt that they didn't get their way at the Healy and that is why they are saying "screw you guys, we'll do it anyway, at a heavy cost to the rest of the community". I would not trust any child of mine with these inexperienced dogmatic control freaks.
Re: Seriously?
> Do you seriously want to publicly say something like that about people
Having observed them and heard of their behavior recently, that's exactly how I would characterize them. At a PTA meeting someone recently asked a SPCS (the new charter) supporter giving info at a table, why they didn't want to send their kids to the existing charter school and their response was "Have you seen that place, it's a sea of black faces".
They've sneaked this proposal through without involving the community or making substantive attempts to involve the city and the school committee. A huge number of the very active and civically involved parents in the city were completely blindsided by this. They're trying to steamroll it through without concern for the rest of the community. There are other options whereby they could start a charter under the umbrella of the school committee, but they are butt-hurt that they didn't get their way at the Healy and that is why they are saying "screw you guys, we'll do it anyway, at a heavy cost to the rest of the community". I would not trust any child of mine with these inexperienced dogmatic control freaks.