Official Says 200 Montgomery Teacher Jobs Need to Be Cut

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2. There's a subtext of racial animosity in this little gem of Alabama.

The city is seeing white flight to surrounding cities and counties, like Prattville, which actually calls itself "The Preferred Community." This Town of Pike Road school system just broke off from Montgomery County school system, so there's something true in that accusation regarding the Superintendent.

With majority-black schools like Jeff Davis and Robert E. Lee, our students are immersed in the same old racial affronts on a daily basis, and you see the solution is to cut teachers, the human resource.

Yeah, the mayor says it is unfeasible for the city to pick up this problem. What they really want - and may need - is Federal oversight and control. The State of Alabama gets an F.