I am not opting out of high-stakes testing, I am opting for jusitce

Why I am going to the United Opt Conference, February 26 – 28, 2016: Transcending Resistance, Igniting Revolution? 49 states spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools, (Quality Counts 2015 Education Week Report). Jonathan Kozol said in "The Sahme Of The Nation: The Restoration of Aparteid Schooling in America: “There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.”
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because equity matters more than any standardized test.
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because it is immoral for the wealthiest nation to pretend that testing and standards solves 49 states to spending more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because one cannot separate standardized testing, and the history of American Eugenics. American Eugenics reconstructed racism into a sick quasi scientific racism deeply rooted in the belief that Black, Hispanics, Jews, Biracial people, and mentally challenged are inferior to White Americans. On poverty they love to discuss that slums don't make the poor, the poor make slums. In other poverty is a choice made by people of color and the poor. The poor make poverty not the privileged. It all a choice, and that choice can be rooted out through educational testing and selection.
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because testing is not equity.
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because standards will never bring equity to our public schools.
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because poverty is not a choice.
I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because the policies of No Child Left Behind, Race To The Top, and Every Stduent Succeeds Act are reattemps of an elite previleged class of Americans to once again blame the poor for being poor, blame people of color for the racism they face everyday.

Thus I am going to the United Opt 2016 conference, because high-stakes testing is a defict view of America's children still deeply rooted in the politics of Racism. Like Principal Jammal Bowmen I view Opting opt  opting out not as opting out of a test, but as opting out for jusitce.

Let me make this simple and perfectly clear even if it offends supporters of "Every Student Succeeds Act. Policies rooted in viewing public education rooted in high-stakes testing are rooted in racism. Fight the testing, and you are fight ingracism.Still marching,
Jesse The Walking Man Turner



If you want to know which song I'll be singing with Barry Lane driving down from Connecticut to
Philadelphia to the National Opt Out conference this morning it's... that 60's hit "Get Together" by the Young bloods  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybIhLJjlTY 
 

Sometimes when injustice rules the land, you just start walking for justice.

Silence and apathy not me

Silence and apathy are not acceptable when:
49 states spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools,
When Detroit's public schools crumble, and their children are poison,
When DEYETT parents in Chicago have to go on hunger strike just to be heard,
When your nation is number one in prison incarceration,
When the middle class in your nation are no longer the majority,
When Wall Street and banks get bail outs, and the young are saddled with student loan debt,
When our nation's public schools are for sale to the highest bidder,
When CEOs income increases 850% while minimum wage earners need soup kitchens and food pantries just to get by,

Silence and apathy are not acceptable when the city of Cleveland files a creditor’s claim for $500, saying the mother of Tamir Rice owes them for the ambulance and paramedics that tended to his 12-year-old’s body after he was shot by a police officer in November,
2014,
Silence and apathy is not acceptable when Billionaires and lobbyists write legislation for our nation,
Silence and apathy not me,
Jesse The Walking Man Turner

If you want to hear what this walking man listened to on his walk on this very cold morning...it's Patty Griffin singing "up To The Moutain" MLK tribute....
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGDPJwm5YM <

Humbled and honored to be one of the recognized by Young Men Strong in 2016

I have accepted Young Men Strong’s 100-100-1 Professional Leaders who are ‘DOING THE WORK’ Award, and will attend the March 12 Award Ceremony in New York. It is an incredible honor just to be nominated, and to be one of the recognized award winners selected by 100 Black Women of Long Island. I am deeply humbled and thankful to be one of those recognized for our work.
Any of my friends living on Long Island interested in attending this event please let me know It is a Black Tie event and fund raising event YMS :  http://www.youngmenstrong.com/
This award is a direct outcome of my activism for equity and justice in our public schools.
What we do for young people matters,
Jesse The Walking Man Turner

'Celebrating Our Men Everyday'
DR. JESSE TURNER,
Congratulations & THANK YOU!
It is our privilege to confirm your nomination as Young Men Strong’s 100-100-1 Professional Leaders who are ‘DOING THE WORK’ Award.
You’ve been nominated for this award because of your commitment to the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state communities as well your ability to make a difference in the lives of the urban male youth you touched through your work.
Your professional presence and commitment will be honored with a gourmet lunch, Live Band, awards ceremony led by Keynote Speakers Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, Senior Pastor Katherine Corbett, and Alex O. Ellis, Tied to Greatness' to take place at New Life Christian Center, Saturday, March 12, 2016, from 11:00 – 3:00 pm.

If you like to listen to the song I listened to this morning on my walk....it's Bob Dylan's "Blowing In The Win"..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwgrjjIMXA