WRAL, Raleigh’s pro-busing news outlet, reports that the NAACP has filed a complaint with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Council on Accreditation and School Improvement.
Highlights include:
Its five members, by their secretive, autocratic, and ?let them eat cake? attitude toward the many different stakeholders in the Wake County School System, have, in three short months made a shambles out of the nationally-respected Wake School System, one of the main engines that drives the vibrant economy of the area and one of the main inducements for large corporations to locate in the area. (p. 2)
We believe a review of the public record and investigation of the following specific allegations will lead SACS? CASI to find that Mr. Margiotta and the other members of the Caucus have violated dozens of the Board’s own procedures in their mad rush to dismantle Wake County’s nationally? recognized student assignment plan based on FRL data to insure [sic] diverse student bodies and classes in its schools. (p. 3)
The Caucus knew, or should have known, that their euphemistic code?words [neighborhood schools] are painful insults to all people of color ? particularly young children. (p. 3)
We are making this complaint public, because we believe other parents, students, faculty, staff and other Wake School supporters will want to add their direct evidence of the misfeasance of these 5 people. We believe their actions have created an educational, social, and moral crisis for our community, which has heroically worked to rebuild the human community ? indeed a human neighborhood. (p. 4-5)
Does the term “human neighborhood schools” count as an insult?
