In a recent GV Wire opinion piece, Terance Frazier suggested that those speaking up about Golden Charter Academy’s conduct are “tearing down” the very people trying to lift our kids up. He also warned against “negativity,” “destruction,” and “knocking down people who try to lift kids up.”

Kristina Holmes-McIntyre

Opinion

This framing is deeply disappointing and concerning, not only because it comes from a respected and necessary leader in our Fresno community, but because of what it implies and, more importantly, who it erases.

Women, Black women in particular, have always been at the forefront of education reform, community building, and advocacy for generations. To label the insistence on legal compliance and integrity as “negative” repeats a long-standing pattern of marginalizing wo

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