Moms booted from Michelle Rhee’s film screening during Democratic Convention

Two Democratic moms who oppose the privation of schools say that security personnel escorted from an event at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week after organizers learned they opposed charter schools and other education “reforms.”

Mecklenburg ACTS co-chairs Pam Grundy and Carol Sawyer told Raw Story that both Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s Students First group and Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) did not want any dissenting voices at their events.

Grundy recalled that after initially being denied entry to a Students First screening of the movie Won’t Back Down on Tuesday, a representative personally invited them to join because they were drawing negative attention by passing out flyers on the sidewalk outside. But before they could view the film, organizers again changed their minds and ordered a security guard to escort them from the building.

“Won’t Back Down is the story of two moms who come together — they have a school that’s not working, the kids are not learning — they try to use this new law where parents can vote to kick out the [teacher's] union and to transform the school into a charter,” Grundy explained. “And so that’s what they do, they work to try to convince parents and teachers to vote to turn their school into a charter, and then they succeed in this vote and at the very end the schools become a charter and everything seems to be wonderful.”

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