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May 20, 2008

A challenge to Roanoke schools

For Wednesday: Forest Park parents have filed a discrimination complaint with the Department of Education over the repurposing of their school for an overage academy. They have the right to protest, but they have the responsibility to also work with Roanoke schools to ensure their children receive a better education.

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# 1

[May 20, 2008 3:12 PM]

L. Traud

Zak Moore over at roanokeredzone offers with A Bright Light for Roanoke City Schools a perspective of a young Roanoker concerned about city schools future.

# 2

[May 20, 2008 3:42 PM]

Henry

This over-age academy sounds like a hole to throw government money in. You had 18 years to get a degree. How much longer can we carry you?

# 3

[May 20, 2008 4:16 PM]

L. Traud

Henry, this isn't for 18-year-olds. It's geared more toward middle and early high school students who have struggled since elementary school and are now older than their classmates.
This is an effort to keep them in school and get them on track. Seems a judicial use of tax dollars to educate youth rather than to give up and allow them to grow into another crop of underemployed or unemployable adults.

# 4

[May 20, 2008 5:13 PM]

Henry

Strange, I thought jobs were so plentiful that we couldn't find people to do them and had to resort to illegal labor to fill jobs. Now I hear people who don't have good English skills can't get jobs.

Here's a better idea. Create a trade school for the "strugglers". If they can't do Algebra, they may as well learn plumbing.

# 5

[May 20, 2008 6:41 PM]

BUBBA

All the sports buffs hate this program as it takes those 27 year old 6th graders out of the school athletic programs.

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