Why Some Parents Resent the Success Charter Schools
March 19, 2012, 8:24 a.m.
The controversy in Brooklyn over the impending arrival of Success Academy charter schools made it onto the OpEd page of The New York Times this weekend, when Lucinda Rosenfeld explained just what is making so many middle-class parents so angry.
In an opinion article, Ms. Rosenfeld, a writer and the parent of a kindergarten pupil at P.S. 261 Philip Livingston in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, said the addition of the charter schools into the gentrified areas of Cobble Hill and Williamsburg may siphon off middle-class students, destroying the delightful demographic mix at her daughter’s school.
Saying that “the communities of Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill overwhelmingly do not support a charter in the neighborhood,” Ms. Rosenfeld writes:
The apparent reason for opening a charter school in a