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title: Hey, Bill de Blasio, I Was Once a Charter School Parent - and I Don't Deserve Your 'Hate'
description: "NEWS:Opinion: A response to recent anti-charter remarks by Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill de Blasio"
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# [Hey, Bill de Blasio, I Was Once a Charter School Parent - and I Don't Deserve Your 'Hate'](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/hey-bill-de-blasio-i-was-once-a-charter-school-parent-and-i-dont-deserve-your-hate)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 07/30/19

For many reasons, I once enrolled my oldest child in a charter school.

I don’t deserve to be hated for doing that, especially by someone who is a candidate for the highest office in the country where I pay taxes; a country for which my grandfathers fought multiple wars, and a country that can’t even bring itself to apologize for its legacy of denying [education to my people](https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/198842).

This is my message for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who recently fell ill with a trashy fit of [apple polishing](https://nypost.com/2019/07/08/de-blasio-shouts-that-he-hates-charter-schools-at-campaign-event/) before the nation’s largest teachers union, where he advertised his “hate” for supporters of charter schools.

[Read the full story here.](https://www.the74million.org/article/stewart-hey-bill-de-blasio-i-was-once-a-charter-school-parent-and-i-dont-deserve-your-hate/) 

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