Prs. Obama backs "Separate but Equal" policy for innercity schools.

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Our innercity schools are a sad commentary on life in these United States. The best thing parents can do for their kids is everything possible to get them into better learning situations. Homeschooling, virtual schools, voucher systems to help low income kids go to private schools, church based schools... all of these are better than most inner city public schools. But the very people who claim to be all about choice and helping the poor want inner city kids locked up in failing school systems... even if it's against their will. My wife student taught in an innercity school when she was in college. She was given high praise for her abilities and the kids loved her. She promised them that she would be there for them when they graduated Jr. High. A year and a half later, the kids were excited to see her when we made good on that promise. The only thing the teacher admonished her against was, "challenging the students acedemically". Can you believe it? She actually expected the students to LEARN. As a paramedic working in Milwaukee, I was called to a lot of the schools there. In every case we were greeted by a school official who had to unlock a gate and the front door of the school. We passed through metal detectors and were escorted by police officers who were permanently assigned to the school. This is the kind of situation into which Prs. Obama and others want to force inner city kids. Choice is not an option, only force. Apparently they didn't learn the lessons of "separate but equal"... they live to return to it by insisting these cesspools of "education" are equal to the alternatives.