NAACP sues to stop the closing of god awful schools.

You wonder why I have nothing but visceral contempt for the NAACP these days. Its stupid shit like this siding with the teachers union.

The NAACP today will join a teacher's union lawsuit to block the city from closing 19 low-performing schools, claiming the action discriminates against minority and special-needs students, sources said.

"The dropout and incarceration rates are going to skyrocket," Leroy Gadsen, head of NAACP's Jamaica, Queens, chapter, said last night.

But City Hall was stunned that a civil-rights group was fighting to save the schools.

"I have no idea at all why they would want to keep open schools that are failing our kids," Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott said.

From WNYC.

Deputy Mayor for Education Dennis Walcott, who is black, said Monday that it is "mind boggling" that the NAACP is suing to keep 19 failing NYC schools open.

The Bloomberg administration recommended closing the schools because of what they call unacceptably low performance and graduation rates as low as 40%. That recommendation was approved at a vote last week.

And Walcott was defending the city against some very strong racially tinged rhetoric at a news conference to announce the lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

"As long as there is an NAACP there will be no segregation!" insisted Hazel Dukes, President of the NAACP NY chapter, implying that low performing students of color were being abandoned by the school system instead of given the resources they need to improve.

So whats the position on Obama's plan to close down the worst performing schools.

President Obama's Race To the Top program involves a mandate to close the lowest performing 5 percent of schools nationwide.

The NAACP also takes issue with that program.

"I disagree with the President on Race to the Top," said Dukes

So the NAACP is on record saying the lowest performing schools shouldn't be closed just keep throwing more money at it to make it work. That way hasn't done squat and its time for something new. The union is fine with the support because they are only interested in teachers getting a paycheck and not losing power with less members if they get fired.

All this talk about the schools needing more resources, I bet they have had resources thrown at them and despite all of it they are still failing. Cut them loose and start over.