Important Education Meeting In Raleigh

One of the most important groups we have come into contact with is "Parents for Educational Freedom". They have planned a meeting in Raleigh on March 6th, 2007 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM that is important for parents of children here in Bertie County.

The speaker at that meeting will be Dr. Howard Fuller, Chairman of the Black Alliance for Educational Options. He backs the kind of freedom for children and parents long opposed by education bureaucrats and teacher unions like the group that has controlled education in Bertie County until now.

Why do we need to care? North Carolina is only graduating 47% of its African-American males meaning a shocking 53% of our African-American males are dropping out of our K-12 public education system. They are dropping out because they know the system is failing to educate them. Public education is the foundation of a free democracy. We cannot continue to let our public education system deteriorate. This is simply unacceptable.

As stated above, Parents for Education Freedom is propounding the philosophy that must be adopted here in Bertie County. We need to start letting parents control their children's education. We need to start demanding that our curriculam challenge our children. We must not settle for less than excellence. That means we will not tolerate a continuance of our test scores going down. In many cases that means we have to exercize some tough love and say to children, "this will not be easy but you will put in the effort."

We are running out of time.