The controversy surrounding the Wake County school board’s plan to assign students goes up for another debate Wednesday night. The issue is once again getting national attention – this time on a comedy show.
First, it was a story in The Washington Post, then a letter to the editor by the U.S. Secretary of Education. Now, news of Wake County public schools has turned into comedy material.
Comedian Stephen Colbert, of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, devoted five minutes to mocking the school board’s assignment policies and one of its members.
“Back in the day, it had segregated schools, white kids here, black kids there, rich kids here, poor kids there, here a poor, there a poor, everywhere a poor poor,” he said. “Sure, integrating schools may sound benign, but what’s the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?”
Colbert used clips of school board member John Tedesco and state NAACP President William Barber while doing his routine.
Parents who want their own say on the matter will have a chance to share their opinions with the school board at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Southeast Raleigh High School.
It’s the fourth public hearing this year. There’s also one Thursday night at Garner Magnet High School.
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