Guest Post: Rep Gerry Pollet Meets with Charter School Parents and Students
By Representative Gerry Pollet, 46 th District: Thursday offered a “learning moment” for students in charter schools , parents and legislators. Blue-shirted charter school students and parents came to the state capital to urge that legislators “save” their schools. Ironically, the Supreme Court released its opinion the same day reaffirming its prior unanimous opinion that charter schools were not “common schools” and its majority opinion striking down the entire charter school initiative as unconstitutional. A group of 8 or 9 Summit Sierra Charter HS 9 th graders and two parents were leaving my office as I returned from committee hearings. Although I had a large group waiting for their scheduled appointment with me, I didn’t want to disappoint high school students who had made the trek – and, were eager to tell me about the “unique” learning experience offered by their school. So, I stopped to engage them. It was a learning moment for me, an...