Pope, Luddy, and Wake County's Gang of Five Embrace Privatization--Publicly
(Photo: SHAWN ROCCO for the News & Observer)When 95 percent of the voters stayed home in Wake County's school board election last fall, they could not have imagined what a civics lesson they were about to receive--the hard way. The newly elected Gang of Five, led by the morbidly stupid Ron Margiotta, is hellbent on unraveling an elaborate and diverse social quilt that took 35 years to piece together among Wake County schools.
If Margiotta knows more about private schools than he does about public ones, it is because he was serving on the Board of his patron's private school long before he was elected to his current office. As for Margiotta's full-time mouthpiece, John Tedesco, his views represent those of an unrepentant and fatuous fool schooled by too many years of talk radio. From the NewsObserver.com:
RALEIGH Ron Margiotta, who heads the board of the 140,000-student Wake County public
