Misfortunate School District

The Governor and a few elected Georgia legislators–Democrats & Republicans alike, approved a bill that will be voted on in the November 8, 2016 election. If passed, the state constitution will be will enable the Governor to create his own school district.

It will be called the Opportunity School District (OSD).

It will round-up the worst of Georgia’s schools (up to 20 per year) that are classified as being populated with failing students based on state mandated tests.

Opportunity schools can be chosen from any state public school and the district has little to no defense or recourse to be free of this blunder.  They will literally be ripped away from their school district and indirectly wear a scarlet letter on their shirts, signifying failure and a lack of acceptance in their own district, the district that their parents support emotionally and financially.  They’ve lost the democratic right to vote for the school committee that manages their own school.

This is a sham.

The money to pay the charter schools will come directly out of the local school district budget.

The principal and most of the teachers will be given the boot and replaced by the state controlled OSD.

The purpose of these schools will be to drill as much information into the so-called “failing students” so that their grey cells expand” making them ready to spit it out on the paper and pencil test that is now a computerized multiple choice version of the test.

VOTE NO on November 8 on the OSD amendment and tell as many coworkers, neighbors and family how bad this will be for education Georgia’s school children.