Posted on 06/30/2011 10:53:43 AM PDT by bronxville
Minority parents in New York have a message for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT): you are hurting our children.
In New York Monday, charter school parents staged another of several rallies to voice opposition to a lawsuit brought by the UFT and NAACP against the New York City Department of Education. If the organizations are successful with their suit, it would prevent enrollment or re-enrollment in 17 charter schools and stop the closure of 22 public schools.
The UFT and NAACP’s decision to sue has roiled inner city parents who depend on charter schools to ensure their children get a good education.
On Monday a slew of parents appeared before UFT headquarters to protest. Nearly a month earlier the NAACP felt their wrath when another estimated 3,000 people showed up at State Administrative Building in Harlem, carrying signs reading “NAACP don’t divide unite,” to protest the NAACP’s involvement.
“I am the product of the public school system that allows 70 percent or more of its black men to not graduate from high school,” said Candido Brown, a charter school teacher at May’s rally. “I could barely believe my ears when I found out that the NAACP was trying to shut down some of the most successful schools serving black and brown children in our city. NAACP, do not take away this awesome education from our children.”
At the UFT, parents could barely keep their voices steady.
“You have money for lawyers you have money for hats, you can’t buy my daughter’s education. I’m just keeping it real,” shouted one unidentified charter school mother.
“I support unions, but I cannot support you condemning my little girl to failure tomorrow.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/30/inner-city-parents-protest-naacp-teachers-union/#ixzz1QmWk6hzk
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/30/inner-city-parents-protest-naacp-teachers-union/#ixzz1QmX0fPQu
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She wants the non-unionized Charter Schools for her kids but she also loves the NAACP and the Unions for her own job who want to shut them down.
“She wants the non-unionized Charter Schools for her kids but she also loves the NAACP and the Unions for her own job who want to shut them down.”
She wants the non-unionized Charter Schools for her kids but she also loves the NAACP and Unions overall especially since she has a unionized job. Both want to shut down the Charter Schools.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
THEY DON’T WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO BE EDUCATED!
LINCOLN FREED THE SLAVES, OBAMA WANTS THEM BACK!............
I wonder when they’ll start showing up at the Union and NAACP leaders homes?
‘Bout time they realized the score.
When a ‘community organizer’ leads them........
The NAACP’s problem with charter schools is that they cannot control them like they can the public schools. These charter schools are teaching kids they can move off the plantation of government dependence - a dangerous message to the NAACP.
Exactly!!! At one time it was against the law to teach blacks to read. Looks like that’s what they are still trying to do, just in stealth way.
One would think from its name that the NAACP would want these kids to advance.
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