Schools Matter: Final Act of Small-Minded Bitterness by Wake's Gang of Five

Schools Matter: Final Act of Small-Minded Bitterness by Wake's Gang of Five:

Final Act of Small-Minded Bitterness by Wake's Gang of Five

by Jim Horn

After Wake County voters re-established sanity last month by voting out the resegregationist school board majority, the Gang of 5 met one last time behind closed doors to rescind a previous offer to mediate trespassing cases against citizens who publicly resisted the end to the socioeconomic diversity program earlier this year.

If there could conceived be a more appropriate goodbye by these hateful bigots, I can't think of one:

The Wake County school board lineup that left office Tuesday decided behind closed doors last week to seek trials for 30 people charged with trespassing at board meetings, rejecting a prosecution offer to have the cases mediated. Former board chairman Ron Margiotta said the board wanted to take a stand against