Hi, Haters

A story in today’s Inquirer details the efforts of two Philadelphia Academy Charter School parents; Megan Snyder Galo and Lisa George were alarmed by problems with the school’s administration.

Turns out the school’s founder and its CEO may have used school funds for personal gain; they’ve both been fired.

And here’s how the two whistleblowers were thanked!

George said she was shunned in the school yard by a parent who told her she had to step away because she didn’t want to be seen standing near one of the “troublemakers.” Others accused them of trying to hurt the school and called them “the haters.” Even their children felt it.

“Some of their kids’ friends wouldn’t be friends with them anymore,” said one staff member who did not want to be quoted by name.

Oh, what a happy age we live in, when parents are now calling each other haters.

Mothers whistled up a storm at charter [Inquirer]

And They Say You Never Learn Anything From TV

Buried deep in an article about Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School — the first all-boys charter school in the state — is this factoid about how at least one boy is preparing about going to a school with same-sex education.

[Jesse] Oyola said he knew about boys’ schools from seeing reruns of the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in which Will Smith’s character attended a boys’ school. He added: “But I never would have believed that I would go to a high school with all boys.”

Oyola will be happy to know Boys’ Latin will feature only a classroom and a hallway and plentiful breaking of the fourth wall. Also, Alfonso Ribeiro is a substitute teacher.

Pupils eager to excel at single-sex charter [Inquirer]