One Man Walking In The Name Of Love To DC

49 states spend more money on their wealthy schools then they do on their poor schools. When pushed they claim testing and the Common Core is the answer. Isn't it time to hold 49 governors, 49 state legislators, 49 commissioners of education accountable for a failure to provide all children an equitable start and finish in our public schools?

1.2 billion dollars was allocated for No Child Left Behind. Isn't it time that the United States General Accounting Office conducted a forensic audit of where and who every dollar went do?
Equity will never be achieve by reducing our children to test scores.
One Man Walking In The Name Of Love,
Jesse 

If you want to know what the Walking Man was listening to on the treadmill preparing for his 400 mile walk to DC today...it U2 "In The Name Of Love" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnais_u2-pride-in-the-name-of-love_music

We love your dream Dr. King, but when do our students discuss the nightmares?

The most recent data on lynching, compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative, shows premeditated murders carried out by at least three people from 1877 to 1950. The killers claimed to be enforcing some form of social justice. The alleged offenses that prompted the lynchings included political activism and testifying in court. FEB. 9, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/10/us/map-of-73-years-of-lynching.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Something you'll never find on any state mandated test. Perhaps something never even discussed during Black History month, or any month in our public schools. I bet those Common Core Standards passed this over every time. We'll discuss Martin's dream, and stay within the safe places if anything. But, we have no time for those first 16 slaves at James Town, those million Black souls lost during the Middle Passage, Lynching, Travon Martin, Michael Brown, or Eric Garner. History matters, but only when we open the books, open the wounds, open safe discussions, find the time to heal, and share what really matters. Freedom was never free, and the cost should be studied in our public schools. 
See you again in Selma next month. Race Matters! History Matters! Dreams Matter, but so does facing our nightmares.
One Man Walking To DC In The Name Of Love,
Jesse

If you want to know what I listened to on my walk today? If was John Legend and Kanya West
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AwrBT.K6B9pUNvAAWhNXNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA2FhcGx3BGdwcmlkA29ZdUoySDl3UVBlbmx3V1ozM1VoaUEEbl9yc2x0AzAEbl9zdWdnAzIEb3JpZ2luA3NlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDMjAEcXVlcnkDdGhlIGdsb3J5IHV0dWJlIHNvbmcEdF9zdG1wAzE0MjM1NzUyMTE-?p=the+glory+utube+song&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=aaplw  

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Come sign it with me?
" Freedom is like religion to us

Justice is juxtaposition in us

Justice for all just ain't specific enough

One son died, his spirit is revisitin' us

Truant livin' livin' in us, resistance is us

That's why Rosa sat on the bus

That's why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up

When it go down we woman and man up

They say, "Stay down" and we stand up

Shots, we on the ground, the camera panned up

King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up

One day, when the glory comes

It will be ours, it will be ours

Oh, one day, when the war is one

We will be sure, we will be here sure

Oh, glory, glory

Oh, glory, glory glory"

What does the face of a defender of childhood look like!

What does a parent defending children look like? I am seeing their faces everywhere, and they are called Opt Out Parents!

http://conversationed.com/2015/02/02/opt-out-orlando-just-took-fl-legislators-to-school/

"On January 29, 2015 she [the co-founder of Opt Out Orlando] addressed the Orange County Legislative Delegation. The legislators on this panel serve the Orlando area. Ms. Hamilton, one of the founders of Opt Out Orlando, began as she detailed the circumstances of one student’s current situation. He has a 2.9 GPA, has met all the requirements for graduation, but cannot pass the FCAT. Therefore, he will not graduate. Most of the legislators in the room were unmoved."

Who are these legislators who can't understand that a student who has pass every class for 13 years, should not be held back by a standarized test?

Who are these Ed Reformers who can not understand that no single test defines any student?

Who are these policy makers who mandate polices that denied parents their right to reject a test they feel harms their child?

Let us name them?

They are people who do not care for children, they are people who fear our children and the future, and they are in the pockets of the testing companies.  

When legislators can't see that our children are not test scores, not data, not profits it's time to vote them out. The people elect legislators not Pearson. I recognized evil, and I reject silence and apathy. I am walking to DC for every child, teacher, and school dehumanized, demoralized, and punished by this reign of testing terror. I will bring the stories of Florida's Opt Parents to DC for SOS's Education Malpractice Mock Trail to the BAT Teachers Congress this July 23-26. Silence and apathy are not acceptable when our America's children and teachers are demoralized, and parents are ignored. I stand with Ms. Hamilton and Orlando Opt Out.

One Man Walking In The Name Of Love To DC,

Jesse

If you are wondering what the Walking Man is listening to today preparing for his walk to DC on the treadmill...it's Ben E. King's Stand By Me > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTd2ylacYNU <