By now, it's quite clear that the battle over charter schools inspires a lot of controversy, dissension, and bickering. Things have gotten particularly heated this week at Public School/Middle School 149 in Harlem, which shares space with the Harlem Success Academy charter. And someone just couldn't help but bring Hitler into this fight.
In anticipation of a hearing on the schools' space-sharing arrangement, someone (officials believe it was a student from the public school) put up a misguided, misspelled poster reading, "Charter schools are like Hitler, tyrents trying to take what's not thiers!" Which is almost certainly not a good way to convince people of your academic success (unless it's some sort of diabolical plot by the charter school to undermine the PS...but that sounds more like the plot of a season of 24). "It's shameful that 631 children who have done nothing wrong...have to be subjugated to bigoted language from those so committed to the status quo, that they will lie, intimidate and slander to try to get their way," said the charter school founder Eva Moskowitz.
