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Yes. Parents should be able to send their children to which ever school they choose regardless of income.

Segregation by Jerry Meandering the School Districts. The public schools elementary in a Northern Michigan Area separate children by using the excuse of residency. This has been the response from the city in order to keep the lower class students away from the middle class students. Lists are extraordinary long with students waiting to get into the other school that has a better staff and principal that it takes years. When parents request to transfer public schools the administration put the student's name on the list and never get back with the parents.

Parents are legally allowed to decide which public school their children will attend. The segregation by Jerry Meandering is one of the ways to legally get around the rule.

A majority of the students that attend the low-income school(which is not true, most are better off than the other school)are of minority decent and oddly enough are coerced into special education programs that are fabricated issues that the students are experiencing based from wanting program funding.

Furthermore the lower-income school creates faults claims and over reacts to student situations. Where one would think by reading "police and fire" articles that the staff have absolutely no classroom management skills.

One example is a kindergarten student that did not want to do the assignment that he was asked to, went to a corner in a bathroom and sat down. He sat there pouting, the teacher chose to take two social workers with her in the bathroom to get this "dangerous" little Native American boy. He became scared and would not move from his fetal position on the floor. The school then deemed it necessary to call the police on the child. The police officer then scared the child and proceeded to chase the kindergartner around the school until detaining him with handcuffs. The daycare was called to come and get the little boy, who has babysat the child for several years. The school demanded that she give them information on any "trouble" that she has had with the boy. She stated none, but then again I don't have the police chase my daycare children around because they are being stubborn.

The issues are intentionally fabricated with the children's mental welfare at stake so the teachers can continue to find a need for special ed programs because of their own inability to keep up with the Michigan Education requirements. More parents need to fight back with these schools instead of allowing the schools to abuse their children.

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