Who's Behind ASD Student Walkout? (Reposted & Reedited With Additional Info)

I came across this post @ Democratic Underground by JPZenger-- "Is there is a concentrated effort by a charter school to disrupt a public school district and make it look bad, so that more public school students will switch to a charter school????... Another leader of the protest, who has a rather colorful history with the police.."

I have no idea who this person is, but if what this person says and the links he posted prove true, JPZenger has gotten way ahead on the details of this story. He/she ask and answers who's behind the movement and what's their backgrounds?



Two things the local media should have investigated but failed to do as of this writing was to report on ALL of those involved and their backgrounds. So far their reporting has not queried those two most basic questions that should have been asked and reported alongside the story. I'm curious to see just how many days will past before these media organizations try and play catch up with social media and the blogs they are so quick to criticize by marginalizing their importance.

What is ironic the links point to their own archives. If media would have done it's job better (by connecting the dots) just maybe these kids would reconsider the type of pied pipers they are being led by. Perhaps even averting further outrage and attacks on the Allentown School District's reputation.

The Morning Call (05/18/2014)
Developer Abe Atiyeh helps charter schools open, reaps profits in return"The Medical Academy Charter School, at 330 Howertown Road in Catasauqua, paid Atiyeh $235,692 in its first year and $353,000 this year. The rent will rise to $363,590 next year"

If these kids are being played this is a new low even for these guys we've been recently reading about. The students need to be made aware of all the information. I think the local commercial press bears responsibility in seeing that students do before this gets too far out of hand, if it's not too late already. Let us hope the local media gets on the stick and checks it out.

DISCLAIMERI absolutely did not write the "Democratic Underground' piece nor know who this person is. I'm simply reporting on what I came across. Take it for what it's worth. You be the judge.

NOTE
JPZenger is a pseudonym no doubt for John Peter Zenger
A German American printer and journalist in the late 1600 & early 1700 hundreds