When Donny Lambeth, a former President of the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board under Donald Martin ( now a county
commissioner), was elected to the NC General Assembly his mission was to move
forward with the mission of the Schoolboard. The mission was to create a
charter school district of Forsyth County.
The idea of a Charter school district in Winston-Salem is not very popular therefore the only way to move forward with this is to target schools to tear down and those schools are in predominately African American communities or neighborhoods.. For example, Cook School was not always a low ranking school but the student population was distributed in the county until the majority of the students were of a specific economic and ethnic group. Children of color are being used by elected officials to benefit their agenda of taking over schools in our neighborhoods. It is not an educational venture but one of financial gain. Charter schools are paid by the student and If the school does not work it can be sold. Charter schools have a separate board and we as residents and tax payers in this county and in our community will have no voice in the education of our children. They will have the last say in which children will be accepted into and will be allowed to stay in the Charter school.
This cannot be allowed to happen. Contact our representatives: Ed Hanes, Evelyn Terry, Donny Lambeth, Senator Paul Lowe Jr. and let them know we will not allow the state to take over our schools in our communities and treat our children as an experiment for their agenda or to give them financial security. Our children nor their education is not for sale.
The idea of a Charter school district in Winston-Salem is not very popular therefore the only way to move forward with this is to target schools to tear down and those schools are in predominately African American communities or neighborhoods.. For example, Cook School was not always a low ranking school but the student population was distributed in the county until the majority of the students were of a specific economic and ethnic group. Children of color are being used by elected officials to benefit their agenda of taking over schools in our neighborhoods. It is not an educational venture but one of financial gain. Charter schools are paid by the student and If the school does not work it can be sold. Charter schools have a separate board and we as residents and tax payers in this county and in our community will have no voice in the education of our children. They will have the last say in which children will be accepted into and will be allowed to stay in the Charter school.
This cannot be allowed to happen. Contact our representatives: Ed Hanes, Evelyn Terry, Donny Lambeth, Senator Paul Lowe Jr. and let them know we will not allow the state to take over our schools in our communities and treat our children as an experiment for their agenda or to give them financial security. Our children nor their education is not for sale.
