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Two Democratic moms who oppose the privation of schools say that security personnel escorted from an event at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week after organizers learned they opposed charter schools and other education reforms.
Mecklenburg ACTS co-chairs Pam Grundy and Carol Sawyer told Raw Story that both Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhees Students First group and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) did not want any dissenting voices at their events.
Grundy recalled that after initially being denied entry to a Students First screening of the movie Wont Back Down on Tuesday, a representative personally invited them to join because they were drawing negative attention by passing out flyers on the sidewalk outside. But before they could view the film, organizers again changed their minds and ordered a security guard to escort them from the building.
Wont Back Down is the story of two moms who come together they have a school thats not working, the kids are not learning they try to use this new law where parents can vote to kick out the [teacher's] union and to transform the school into a charter, Grundy explained. And so thats what they do, they work to try to convince parents and teachers to vote to turn their school into a charter, and then they succeed in this vote and at the very end the schools become a charter and everything seems to be wonderful.
more . . . http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/06/moms-booted-from-michelle-rhees-film-screening-during-democratic-convention/
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Maybe they should have selected the audience through a lottery.
bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)I am simultaneously not surprised and speechless -
lunatica
(53,410 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)Gov Rick Scott, Gov Chris Christie and Gov Mitch Daniels---Whats wrong with this picture, these people and the future of education "for profit"??
Be cautious, be aware...
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/41086/michelle-rhee-inc