Black Market Crackdown
It must be time for another media wave. Yesterday’s EIA Communiqué contained a quote of the week featuring the case of a Georgia woman who received a felony conviction for sending her son to a public school outside of her home district. In the past I’ve referred to offenses of this type as the school choice black market.
Today Joe Williams at Democrats for Education Reform goes one better by relating the story of Yolanda Hill, who is in jail for sending her kids to a school in the Greece Central School District instead of the Rochester public schools, home of the renowned “living contract.”
Her story appears in the local newspaper under the reassuring headline, “Rochester-area schools unlikely to arrest parents.” Then you can read about her kids.
In a similar vein, Greg Forster over at Jay P. Greene’s Blog quotes AFT President Randi Weingarten:
“Should fate, as determined by a student’s Zip code, dictate how much algebra he or she is taught?”
The answer, evidently, is only if fate wears the uniform of a school district border patrol officer.
