Walking around my hood I bump into a fellow do-gooder. She tells me she saw my piece on Diane Ravitch’s blog. I tell her how the whole issue gets my blood boiling, and describe the shameless use of 194 children as “human shields” to deflect the fact that the mendacious, self-serving administration at Success Academy never put together contingency plans in case their charter school was not given the go ahead.
“Do you know they tried to ‘co-locate’ in that school up the block,” she tells me.
“Really?”
“Yep, and they wanted to squeeze out the autistic program that was already there…”
“No way!”
“Oh yeah, they tried over and over again, but it was rejected each time.”
I shake my head; I think we can now re-define the word “chutzpah” to include crying over the kids who you didn’t prepare to go to an alternate middle school, while trying to displace a program that serves autistic children.
