Desperate Measures for Desperate Times
For any parents whose children dread going to school because they are being bullied or feel lost, and for any parents who are worried that their 6th-grader can’t read, and for any parents who are desperate to put their children in a different school because of these or other problems—Missouri’s largest teachers union has your number. Apparently, those problems are just excuses. The real reason families want to transfer their children out of their assigned public schools is to get White children away from children of color. Plain and simple.