What school choice means to parents with ‘bad’ kids
What rights do kids have in schools? This is one of the poignant questions asked in this hard-hitting post by Natalie Hopkinson, who looks at what happens to kids in charter schools who have discipline problems. Hopkinson is a contributing editor to The RootDC. E-mail her at NHopkinson@hotmail.com (and join her and The Root DC for a discussion on Saturday, March 16, from 1-3 p.m. at THEARC for “Schools and Discipline: Is it working? Is it fair?” 1901 Mississippi Ave, SE, Washington DC. Thisappeared on The Root D.C.By Natalie Hopkinson
My friend e-mailed me the flier to ask what I thought.
On the right-hand corner, her 8-year-old son struck a playful pose, singing into a giant plastic microphone. Beside him, the text read: “J—– deserves a second chance?”
The text continued: “I believe in J—–. Please let my friend back into school.”
The idea was to recruit J.’s second-grade classmates to beg the school’s principal to let him finish the last four weeks of school. My friend Nicole (that’s her middle name) had just