Children are more than test scores

This blog welcomes readers who believe that No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top, and Every Student Succeeds Act are misguided educational reform policies that rely too heavily on standardized test scores that are too focused on punitive measures against local schools. This is also the diary of Jesse Turner's 2010/15 walks to Washington DC from Connecticut, and his occupation of the DOE in DC with United Opt Out, and his opposition to public school choice policies without equity.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Change requires creative transformative marchers

Dr. Martin Luther King said “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” at the age of 8 in 1963 I found myself in DC listening to that voice of creative transformation. Martin set the bar higher than I can ever reach, but I can reach. I am proud that I am playing a small part in the Save Our Schools Coalition "People March" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC this July 8.

If you think it is wrong for 49 states to spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools?

Then come march with the people.

If you think spending 1.7 Billion dollars on testing while school budgets all across the nation are cutting services to children?

Then come march with the people.

If you think inequity must not be the corner stone of public education in America?

Then come march with the people.

If you think children are more than test scores?

Then come march with the people.

If you think poverty matters?

Then come march with the people.

If you want to end the School to Prison to Pipeline?

Then come march with the people.

If you think teachers are more than test scores?

Then march with the people.

If you believe that children, parents, teachers and public schools matter more than test scores?

Then come march with us.

If you believe you believe justice deserves to be front and center in our public schools?

Then march with us.

If you want to change bitterness occupying education reform into a transformative creative force that honors and respects childhood, our youth, their parents, their teachers and our local public schools.

Then march with us.

The bar is high, but everyone can jump.

See you in DC all you creative transformative marchers of hope,

Jesse The Walking Turner

Our creative transformative demands

Our choice is to rally and march to Save Public Education To stand for Justice In Washington DC this July 8-10

http://saveourschoolsmarch.org/2016/03/sos-coalition-event-lincoln-memorial/

If you want to know what this Walking Man listened to on his walk this morning...it was Bruce Springsteen version of "We Shall Over Come" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMfaAHoZ8xs

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