In this post, Jonathan Pelto describes the rigid discipline at the Jumoke Academy in Connecticut.

The astonishing thing about this school is who is not enrolled.

First came the Jumoke Academy, a Hartford based, discipline oriented charter school that over its history failed to take a single bilingual or non-English speaking student since it opened, despite the fact that one in five Hartford student’s aren’t fluent in English and nearly 50% of all students come from households that don’t speak English.

So Governor Malloy, Commissioner Stefan Pryor, the State Board of Education and the Hartford Board of Education gave Hartford’s Milner School, a predominantly Latino  local public elementary school, to Jumoke Academy to manage.

This year, with no evidence that Jumoke has the skill to manage other public schools, Governor Malloy, Commissioner Stefan Pryor, the State Board of Education, Paul Vallas and the Bridgeport Board of Education gave Bridgeport’s local Dunbar elementary school to Jumoke Academy to manage.

Wait, What?

Not a single bilingual or non-English speaking student in a city where one in five students are in that category?

Is this legal? Where is the ACLU? Where are the civil rights groups that defend students? Where is the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights?

Needless to say, the new “academy” will be staffed by Teach for America, recent college graduates who are malleable and plan a two-year “career.”