Paul Muschick: Bethlehem superintendent knew he would take heat for talking about race and charter schools. Here’s why he did anyway.
Bethlehem schools Superintendent Joseph Roy knew he was going to be criticized for his remarks last month about race and charter schools.
That’s because it wasn’t the first time he’d said in a public forum that some parents send their kids to charters so they won’t have to go to school with “kids coming from poverty or kids with skin that doesn’t look like theirs.”
Roy told me he took heat for it the previous, time, too. But he dove in anyway when he was asked at a Dec. 5 news conference why students choose charters.
“This is a real thing and we shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it,” he told me in his first CONTINUE READING: Race and charter schools: Why Bethlehem superintendent Joseph Roy raised the issue of racism - The Morning Call
