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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Facebook, Here we go again with violating community standards thing



Well, readers once again my Facebook post is under review for possibly violating Facebook Community Standards. What is it that cause this...Perhaps it's because I am saying No More to public education reform policies that are harming our children, their teachers, public schools and communities. Or maybe I did use the word 'Guns," it was in the context of "No More Guns".
Well, who knows, here is post:

 I walked, 400 miles in 2010,
We marched in 2011 with SOS,
We march with BATS multiple times in DC, and
In 2013 and 2014 United Opt Out occupied the United State Department of Education twice.
I walked in 2015,
Rev Barber, Bishop Selders, Barbara Madeloni, SOS, BATS, and UOO Marched on the Lincoln Memorial in 2015 as well.
In 2016 the women marched.
IN 2017, 18, AND 19, teachers walked out in states on the East Coast, West Cost, in the middle, North and South in America,
Isn't it time we all march out!

To my Rank and File sisters and brothers, I have this burning question in between our union business of the day.
AFT and BATs study showed how stress teachers are.
How is it our teacher unions are not organizing a march on Betsey DeVos's United States Department of shame?
Why are our rank and file leaders not organizing marches and occupations of the United States Department of Education?
Why are we not occupying this Secretary of Education, whose says she won't protect all children, but she is fine with money for guns for teachers YEAH?

Come this fall even if I am the only Rank And File Member,
I am walking into that United States Department of Education, Laying this body down in the doorway.
Saying no more:
School choice without equity,
No more high-stakes testing,
No more Charter school scams,
No more Wall Street privatization scams,
No more can't fund wrap around services,
No more closing schools in communities of color,
No more can't fund art, music, librarians, counselors, social workers,
No more, we can't fund real reading specialists and Special Education teachers,
No more we can't give our children, their teachers and schools the resources they need.
No more teachers with guns.

I know who I am,
I know where I stand,
I am not tired,
I am not beaten,
I am leaving,
I am staying,
I am a teacher who knows exactly where I stand.
I stand with our public school children whose voices have been silence,
I stand with parents of color, who are not asking for more, Only asking for the same resources America has always given the rich White kids get in their public schools.
I stand with our older and younger teachers who are being humiliated and push out of our profession.,
not because they can't teach,
But because they can't be quiet.

Who Am I?
I am Jesse The Walking Man Turner, re-framing myself.
Form now on I call me the NO MORE MAN,
A No More Man, ready to occupy that house of shame 'The United States Department of Education.
Come this fall expect, this No More Man to show up at Betsey's House of Shame,

Looking for 12, "No More" Activists,
But, I can go it alone.
If need be, because,
I am The No More Man!

Respectfully,
Dr. Jesse. P. Turner
CSU-AAUP Connecticut State Due Justice Liaison


If you want to listen to the song that inspired my walk today...its Public Enemy Fight the Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

Monday, June 3, 2019

Interesting Facebook thinks this one goes against their community standards




Interestingly, I posted this on Facebook this morning, and got a message from Facebook that my post goes against their community standards.
I find it, somewhat amusing that a University Literacy Professor's post on literacy and racism violates Facebook Community Standards. My more cynical mind has me thinking perhaps the status quo prefers a more sterile kind of literacy. Maybe even an effort to keep people ignorant.
Well, anyway here is my may violate Facebook Community Standards on Literacy and Race.

Malcolm X said: “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

What would you need to do to keep a race down?
What would a hidden curriculum of oppression look like?

First, keep books out of the hands of people, close their libraries and bookstores in their communities. Close school libraries, or build schools without libraries.
Turn school literacy lessons into pieces of fragmented texts focused on non-fiction texts only. Understand that narrative inspires, narratives lift, and narratives change lives. Access to narratives must be limited at best.
Turn literacy into lessons you learn without real books. Turn literacy into a chore. Do everything you can to make learning to read as bland as possible. Focus on workplace literacy, never let readers know books transform our lives and the world. Keep it simple, teach just enough to lock learners into low paying jobs.

Keep great books out of the hands of readers. Tell them everything you need to read is online. Give students Chrome books. You would not want people walking around with real books in their hands, reading them in public, on trains, buses, and on their front steps in their neighborhoods.

Focus on endless standardized testing and test prep. Isolate learning into reading, writing, and math drill and kill lessons.
What would you need to do to turn your policies into a racist dream curriculum?
Exactly what America has done to literacy in our Black, Brown, and poor communities.
These Ed Reformers are no reformers, they are the new slave merchants,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
Central Connecticut State University Literacy Center Director
Moral Monday CT Education Ambassador



If you want to listen to the tune that inspired my walk this morning over the mountain...it's Gil Scott-Heron - 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=71&v=qGaoXAwl9kw






Monday, May 20, 2019

Want to save public schools? Build, fund, and open more librairies



When I was a homeless child. My mother would go to work, and I would go to school. Momma insisted that after school I would go to the library. It was safe, it was dry, it was warm, and the librarians were welcoming. Momma, would come pick me up after work. The bus had a stop outside the library. They all knew my situation, one of them went to high school with my mother.

Momma's Librarian friend always watched over me, fed me the most amazing books, and like clockwork she gave me cookies and hot chocolate. She never judged us, there go I, for the grace of god..... On our nightly walk to that wood bench at the train station that was our home on many a night...Momma would say what did you read today. I would tell her about the cookies, she would say that was kind of Marie, but what did you read today...Well I had Dickens, Poe, Langston, Hugo, Cervantes, the Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes, the Invisible Man, Frankenstein...these were my constant companions. These were my life preservers. Without them, and the kindness of those librarians...Honestly, I do not know where I would have ended up. Some might say these were my darkest times, but I am not so sure any more...they just might have been those bright moments that saved Dr. Jesse P. Turner...

Some people think you make readers by building their skills. Skills are necessary components of becoming a reader.
But, I say readers are made by how we invite them into reading. Cookies, hot chocolate, carefully chosen books to inspire, and that welcoming smile, now, these are the things that make readers who love books.

Librarians taught me that books are our constant welcoming companions. Lately, it appears new schools are being built without libraries in poor communities. At the very moment, when public library budgets and hours are being cut. I have urban teachers who are now saying Dr. Turner, there is no librarian in our library. If this is education reform. I want no part of it. These Education Reformers could learn a great deal from listening and talking to our librarians.
I know things, because I read,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
CCSU Literacy Center Director



If you like to listen to the song that inspire my walk over the mountain today...its the Indigo Girls "Closer to Fine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky228