In all my writing about public schools you’ll find a consistent claim that public schools are insufficient to the task of educating black children. That message angers people, especially those working in district public schools who feel under “attack” by big money school reformers who want to “privatize” public education.
Often I publish a blog post and a special brand of internet activist comes for my head.
To be frank, the loudest voices depositing electronic sharts into my inboxes are Angry White Teachers. Some I know because they are repeat offenders, others I come across randomly, like Steven Singer.
Yesterday I read Professor Julian Vasquez-Heilig’s blog post intended to calm fears that the NAACP has backed off its horribly misguided call for a 10 year moratorium on charter schools.
Whose fears?
In the post Heilig says he had a phone call “with blogger Steven Singer today assuring him that the moratorium has not been rolled back.”
Steven who?
He must be important if he can demand assurances that our colored civil rights elders have not gone off-script?
This below the blogger, teacher, activist, union ride-or-die dude, Steven Singer…
Steven Singer, a white teacher doing what they do best: fighting for the rights of white teachers.
He looks like a nice guy.
Kidding. He looks loud, aggressive, and angry.