Parents at school where Latino kids ate on floor say they plan to roll up sleeves, take action
*When the parents found out the principal had their kids eating on the floor, the collected 130 signatures on a petition to have her fired. She resigned. VL
The parents at a Colorado elementary school whose principal resigned after forcing Latino children to eat on the floor say they will no longer stand back and remain silent.
[pullquote]The parents handed in a petition with 130 signatures and demanded that Principal Kalpana Rao be removed from her job – immediately. A few days later, Rao quit.[/pullquote]The parents had demanded the removal of the principal of Denver’s Cheltenham Elementary after a parent snapped a photo of one of the kids who was eating on the floor of the school’s main office.
“We exposed the principal, and we demanded change – even though it took parents three times to demand change, our persistence has paid off,” said Carmen Alvarez, one of the moms who headed the protest along with the local organization “Padres & Jovenes Unidos, in a statement sent to Fox News Latino.
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