Sometimes when her curt orders made Pork stick out his under lip and Mammy mutter: " Some folks rides mighty high dese days, " she wondered where her good manners had gone.
But according to a trove of emails the school obtained through a public-records law suit, DESE employees were secretly coordinating with the school's critics, including the Henrys, the NAACP and local racial-justice activists unconnected to the school.
Mystic Valley officials believe the internal DESE emails they uncovered prove that the fix is in and the state is determined to find a pretext on which to revoke its charter, which is up for renewal in 2023.