text: Thanks for the clarification - it's so hard to keep straight who on the left is whose minion these days (even though we all know they're all ultimately funded by George Soros, right?) - but I'm still not sure what you mean by "bought and paid for." If you're saying that "the teacher's union" bribed NAACP leadership into opposing charters, then please provide some reputably-sourced evidence; otherwise, you're just a Hannity.
  
  Of course the "average working family in a poor area" - one wonders at what your definition of that might be - is free to decide what's best for their children. The argument of the study that Mr. Izard so vehemently decries, as well as my point about the NAACP call for a moratorium, is about what happens when rich white people decide that they should starve public schools of funding in order to promote a system of unaccountable, classist, borderline-segregationist charters.