Schools Matter: Wake County Gang of Five and AFP Push Forward to Corral Poor Children in Charters

Schools Matter: Wake County Gang of Five and AFP Push Forward to Corral Poor Children in Charters

Wake County Gang of Five and AFP Push Forward to Corral Poor Children in Charters

by Jim Horn

As the Tea Partiers in Wake County celebrate the return to segregated high-poverty and low achievement schools, the local Republican Women's Club is spreading the word on the corporate solution--charter testing camps--for the "failing schools" that will doubtlessly result from this new policy of containment and segregation of the poor.

So besides the social preference for apartheid schools at the John Birch Locke headquarters in Wake, there has been, all along, a financial incentive to breaking up the socioeconomic diversity plan of Wake County: black and brown children can be ethnically cleansed in corporate charters within Raleigh, and the white children can be nurtured and sheltered behind the gates of their leafy communities on the outskirts of Raleigh, all at public expense and under corporate direction. The unacknowledged goal, of course, is to make sure that North