“My children are forced to go to Law Academy; the number of children in their classroom has
increased to 35 or more, where Grant (a DPS school) was known to have 27 to 30 ids in each
classroom. If he closed schools due to loss of population, then classrooms should have fewer
students, not more. Did the Governor create classroom overcrowding in the white schools?” 95
“The Governor’s Actions will cost me money to pay for remedial classes, and greater time and
the child’s hurt self esteem because of the false sense of security based on inflated grades.” F
“I feel that when they give us any grade without seeing to it that we are actually ready for
school and challenging us to have knowledge and practicing the knowledge that it means they
feel we are inferior and won’t amount to anything because they don’t think we matter
anyway.”F
“I am from … New York. We have no schools being mismanaged by the Governor, and I am
overwhelmed how leadership is so unfair (here). How can he vote for a bonus $50,000 when
children are suffering..? My brother and sister go to DLA Academy which is a charter school
located on Virgil. They are not getting the right education, they are not being taught, (my sister
does not receive) enough assistance with her learning needs… and we don’t feel the school
cares. It starts at the top.” 128
If students are not in a gang, that is the only way some feel they are safe travelling to a far
away school. The gangs used to be in LA, now they have come to our neighborhood thanks to
Snyder destroying the community and making it so young people can’t travel safely. They don’t
know what to do, they are young. Then to be in the gang, kids have to do crime. No more
selling hot dogs at the football games, now the businesses closed around here, no jobs there.
Snyder just reached his hand in and scrambled things up in a way so he can make money from
our pain and suffering. 139
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