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Charter Schools Exploit Children of Color | gadflyonthewallblog

Charter Schools Exploit Children of Color | gadflyonthewallblog

Charter Schools Exploit Children of Color

Go to most impoverished black neighborhoods and you’re bound to find three things in abundance.
Liquor stores, payday lenders and charter schools.
It is no accident.
In the inner city, the underemployed compete for a shortage of minimum wage jobs, healthcare is minimal, public transportation inadequate and the schools are underfunded and short staffed.
But that doesn’t mean money isn’t being made.
In capitalist America, we make sure to turn a profit off of everything – including our peculiar institutions of racial inequality.
Businesses are on every corner, but they aren’t set up for CONTINUE READING: Charter Schools Exploit Children of Color | gadflyonthewallblog