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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)and ends in early March, with this (Republican, fundie, free-market) foundation giving jada an award, a Parents United group (supporting education "reforms" like charter schools) holding a rally, and some appearances on the Glenn Beck show. There's one local newscast (about the Parents United rally), and only one remark from anyone with the schools: "We probably didn't handle this in the best way."
Which could mean anything.
That's it, so far as I can tell.
But according to the story being promoted, the girl was harrassed for writing this essay -- not only by her own teacher, but by other teachers at the school, and the school administrator. Supposedly there were conferences about it and social workers and the *President of the Teachers Union* were brought in to "intimidate" the family.
It was so bad that the girl was effectively forced to change schools. And in her new school (apparently more hard-core than her first) she wasn't comfortable and stopped attending.
And that's the last we hear of her.
I don't know about you, but something doesn't ring true here.