{"id":17717,"date":"2011-01-27T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2011-01-27T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T13:42:49","slug":"the-new-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17717","title":{"rendered":"The New Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another example of the absurdity of our idiot school system; a black woman, tired of her neighborhood’s wretched school system, tried to get her children a better education.<\/p>\n

She was one of about 100 families investigated – but Kelley Williams-Bolar committed the greatest crime there is, in the eyes of soulless administrations; she fought back.<\/p>\n

And now\u00a0she’s in jail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It’s overwhelming. I’m exhausted,” she said. “I did this for them, so there it is. I did this for them.”<\/p>\n

Williams-Bolar decided four years ago to send her daughters to a highly ranked school in neighboring Copley-Fairlawn School District.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t her Akron district of residence, so her children were ineligible to attend school there, even though her father lived within the district’s boundaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ohio has an open enrollment policy – but it grants a lot <\/em>of latitude<\/a> to schools as to whether or not they (and their tax bases) will participate.<\/p>\n

The school district accused Williams-Bolar of lying about her address, falsifying records and, when confronted, having her father file false court papers to get around the system.<\/p>\n

Williams-Bolar said she did it to keep her children safe and that she lived part-time with her dad.<\/p>\n

“When my home got broken into, I felt it was my duty to do something else,” Williams-Bolar said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a reason that black families are the most enthusiastic supporters of charter schools in Minneapolis and Saint Paul; schools in inner city neighborhoods are <\/em>that bad.<\/p>\n

And here’s a statement you can just hear coming out of the mouth of some DFL hamster, can’t you?<\/p>\n

While her children are no longer attending schools in the Copley-Fairlawn District, school officials said she was cheating because her daughters received a quality education without paying taxes to fund it.<\/p>\n

“Those dollars need to stay home with our students,” school district officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep. \u00a0I hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another example of the absurdity of our idiot school system; a black woman, tired of her neighborhood’s wretched school system, tried to get her children a better education. She was one of about 100 families investigated – but Kelley Williams-Bolar committed the greatest crime there is, in the eyes of soulless administrations; she fought back. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions\/17718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}