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Friday, October 31, 2025

Whose Public Schools? Our Schools!

 


A Half Million View preaching the truth, two 400 mile walks, exposing 23 years of false promises. 

10/30/25 My Children Are More Than Test Scores total Blog reach a Half Million Views, some 15 years of opposition to 23 years of abusive Hight Testing Abuse and to test driven education reforms that closed 25,000 local community schools. 

Policies that left Black Children and Brown Children, and Special Education children with less: 

Art Teachers,

Music Teachers,

Gym Teachers,

Special Education Teachers, 

Literacy Specialists,

School Counselors,

School School Workers,

Para Professionals,

School Nurses, and

With larger Class Sizes. 

Made Billions for CEOs, Ed Reformers, Testing Companies who lobbyists contributed millions and millions to the campaign coffers of both Republicans and Democrats.                                                    While, Black and Brown Parents were fed endless false promises that test scores would go up. In 2002 before this all began the scores of our high school children were higher than today. Trillions were spent on failed reforms. Children, teachers and parents were left with the blamed for 23 years of failing polices pushed by CEOs and Policymakers. 

Parents and Teachers 23 later, it is time to stop chasing test scores, and start demanding the return of those loss:

Education children with less: 

Art Teachers,

Music Teachers,

Gym Teachers,

Special Education Teachers, 

Literacy Specialists,

School Counselors,

School School Workers,

Para Professionals,

School Nurses, and

Smaller Class Sizes.  

Still fighting to Save Our Public Schools                                                                                                        Dr. Jesse P. Turner                                                                                                                                    Professor Emeritus of Literacy Elementary, and Early Childhood Education                                            Jesse The Walking Man Turner 

If you like to hear the tune that inspired my morning walk today, it is Barry Lane's Jesse Turner is a Walking Man  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BRZUlpO75Q&list=RD3BRZUlpO75Q&start_radio=1 

Who knows, maybe there is one more walk left in me.




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