This week a parent who signed the charter petition without thoroughly reading it signed a letter that has been delivered to Superintendent Larry Enos asking that his name be removed from the charter petition. After studying it closely and reading about the charter issue he decided that he no longer supports the charter school proposal. He is truly a brave soul full of integrity.
Because the Board of Trustees may consider support for the charter petition in deciding whether to accept or reject at its June 12th meeting, this defection will certainly have a significant impact on the fortunes of the charter proposal.
It also shows that parents who take the time to read what they signed and become informed about its impact on the District as a whole and the destructive impact of charters on public education may end up joining him.
In fact, in a March 14, 2012 email to Principal Laura Shain and Superintendent Enos one of the LWIP teachers wrote that if the charter petition turns out to have an impact of anything but "neutral at worst" "the LWIP faculty might consider pulling our support from the Charter initiave [in original] for the good of the whole District." I obtained this email today as a result of my April 18, 2012 California Public Records Act Request. Since the evidence that the charter school will have a much worse than "neutral at worst" impact on the District I hope that our teachers will live up to this offer to consider withdrawing their names as soon as possible.
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