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Against a five year old. I can tell you, when my kids have issues on the school bus, the district invites me in to watch. Here, we have a school and its “corporate owner” – the article’s words, not mine – refusing to show the parent of the alleged victim the video of what happened.
Daleelah, a Kindergarten student, says a boy grabbed her by the neck and began choking and slapping her. Making the situation even more serious, Daleelah is still recovering from tonsil surgery just a few weeks ago.
Her mother, Erica Ali, told Channel 3 News, “I want some answers and instead I’m getting the runaround from Hope Academy.”
Ali says there is a video security camera onboard her daughter’s bus, which is operated by the Canton City Schools. However, Canton School officials say that they gave the tape to the principal at Hope Academy.
The charter school refused to show the video to the victim’s mother or show it to Channel 3 News.
Hope Academy and their corporate owner, White Hat Management, refused to let the school principal respond to any questions from a reporter.
A school official told Daleelah’s mother that the student who attacked the five-year-old has “behavioral issues,” but refused to elaborate.
David Brennan – do you have any granddaughters this age? Do you remember when your kids were this age? Would you stand for this kind of alleged treatment if it was a public school – or any school for that matter?
Hello people – public dollars. For-profit corporate ownership. Not a good mix for being in charge of our kids. Again.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:20 pm May 2nd, 2008 in Business, Education, Government, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse, Ted Strickland, Youth
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Jill, a question. Actually, make that two questions.
Why the hell is White Hat still managing any charter school in this state?
And when can we expect the public funding aspect of charter schools to change – again – in this state?
Last week, a Hope Academy parent who constantly bashes the public schools, and who has been threatened to have her 5 children taken from her, had he child’s teacher spread Hope propaganda amongst our congregation. All information was folowers and roses suported by no data—why because THE SCHOOL PURPORTED TO SAVE FAILING KIDS…. is FAILING KIDS. The principal has been arrested, not once but twice. Cannot find his licensure data on ODE website, when queried, you are asked to call ODE for his licensure information. Please, before you get sucked into this travesty, examine data, and buried reports of attacks on school busses!!!