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Public School Advocate Attacks Charter, Private Schools, Compares Them To Terrorist Training Centers

Hank Berrien
Public School Advocate Attacks Charter, Private Schools, Compares Them To Terrorist Training Centers
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Writing in the Charleston Gazette, a retired teacher and former mentor of West Virginia’s only PBS News Hour Student Reporting Lab slammed charter and private schools, comparing them to Islamic schools from whence the terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 came.

In a piece titled, “Charter schools, vouchers will erode what unites us,” Susan Johnson lauds public schools, writing, “The American public school is where we learn to be Americans.”

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