PSAT for 6-12-12: Tend your garden
Students in Shamrock school garden - photo by Pamela Grundy
As we sit back and reflect on the powerful message the Chicago Teachers’ Union sent to Mayor Rahm yesterday, it seems like a good time to muse about where we go from here.The CTU has some great ideas in their “The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve” report.
Today I’d like to add to that approach by passing on a beautiful article by our Charlotte, NC, Parents Across America member, Pamela Grundy, who writes about the last day at a school she was warned against sending her son to — “one of the many high-poverty, high-minority schools created as Charlotte dismantled its once-celebrated program of busing for desegregation.”
Pamela writes:
Six years ago, the (newspaper) coverage struck an ominous note. “If it were your child, would you risk it?” the headline asked, invoking the phrases that strike terror into ambitious parents’ hearts: