Just because you repeat something does not make it true. In the July 19 front-page article "Schools fight to get loud," Wake County Republican chairman Claude Pope stated of the new school board majority, "They were elected to carry out a mandate, and they're doing so." I keep reading this, but I'd like to remind Pope and his like-minded followers that less than 4 percent of the electorate is hardly a mandate.
Never mind the fact that the school board is supposed to be nonpartisan and represent all the students in Wake County's school system. Never mind that the clear majority of people who care enough to go to school board meetings and speak out are in support of retaining student assignment based on economic diversity.
It's repeated over and over that test scores are down and the achievement gap is widening because of the diversity policy. But guess what? Results from last year's testing indicate that claim is also untrue. But go ahead and repeat your misinformation. It still doesn't make it true, and at some point Pope and his crowd will be held accountable, whether it be at the polls, the courtroom or both.
