It is just plain sad and frustrating that the Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP is opposing the proposal by the daughter of Howard Lee – Chapel Hill’s first African-American mayor – to start a public charter school aimed at closing the achievement gap between white and minority kids. Take a few minutes to read the NAACP’s opposition letter and I think you’ll conclude that defenders of the status quo seek to protect the system at the expense of innovations and innovators that seek to help kids left behind by a one-size-fits-all traditional approach to learning. What a shame for the kids.