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Friday, June 21, 2019

Facebook, Does kindness offend thee, or can't you shake off those rigor and grit blues


Dear Facebook, this is that old Literacy Professor calling you again about those so called Facebook Community Standards again.
It appear these this words in my post violated your community standards"
" This is a Walking Man SOS people, spread the word! 

Take your Grit, Rigor and you know what Ed Reform Scammers. We want the hundreds of billions you spent on that BS Grit crap! Perhaps the BS Grit Crap words ?
Perhaps it is the words Ed Reformer Scammers?
Or perhaps it just the idea of  A Tedx about teaching children the power of kindness offend thee?
Maybe teaching them kindness might offset their consumer driven algorithms?

People you have to take 12 minutes to watch the Barry Lane TEDxCCSU talk about teaching kindness to our children. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzimmQaLzo8 <

Now, good people spread the word watch Barry's TEDx talk, because it is Kindness, not grit and rigor our children in our public schools need today.
Fight the power,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
Moral Monday Connecticut Education Ambassador


In case you want to listen to the song that inspired my walk in the rain this morning...its Barry Lane's know your higher self.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-i872w3D2w


Radical Old Literacy Professor here 

This Literacy Professor is going with Barry Lane's try a little kindness.










Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Message in a bottle to these 2020 Democratic Candidates 4 President


Maybe, it's just me?
Maybe, I'm just not bright enough?
Maybe, I just can't see right?

But, most of these 20 and counting Democrats running for President sound like they'll fine with the education reforms of the past 20 years.

May, it's just me?
Maybe, I'm just not bright enough?
Maybe, I just can't see right?

Maybe these boys and girls need a quick study in
understanding,
That we teachers and parents are not fine with the crap these people supported for 20 years.
Want our vote, get on board, but accept that none of your education reforms were alright with us,
While, Wall Street loved them, we teachers and parents hated them.

Don't fret, my mind is opened,
While you were busy listening to CEOs,
I walked 400 miles twice from CT to DC protesting your reforms,
I joined two United State Department of Education Occupies with United Opt Out,
I'm the kind of not too bright person you might just need to listen to get our votes,
Don't worry, I'm not leaving you out on a ledge,
I'm a teacher,
I have a quick study guide for you.

No more high-stakes testing,
No more school choice without equity,
No more class sizes don't matter,
No more closing local public schools in Black, Brown, and Poor communities.

No more teachers get paid too much talk,
No more teacher pensions are too costly,
No more teacher health care costs are too high,
No more teachers have it easy talk.

No more get rid of recess,
No more poor children need rigor nonsense,
No more poor children need tough love crap,
No, more data walls,
No more blended learning talk,
No more let poor schools compete against each,
No more poor schools need to do more with less foolish talk,
No more computer based intervention programs,
No more, giving CEOs control of our public schools,
No more giving billions of our tax dollars to "For profit entities" to open charter schools,
No more virtual scams schools,
No more voucher scams,
No more accepting campaign contributions from Ed reformers bent on dismantling our public schools,
No more of just about every education reform scam you supported for the past twenty years.

Finally, I want a massive amount of money to help bring back those over 300,000 teachers, many of them teachers of color, your Ed Reforms force out of teaching.
Can't do that, well then you can't have this not bright enough, can't see it "Teacher's Vote!

My message in a bottle,
Jesse The "No More" Teacher

PS: I want those social workers, librarians, counselors, nurses, para-professionals, school custodians, and other specialized staff back as well. Don't even dare ask how will we pay for it?
You can start by taking back that trillion dollar tax gift you gave to our nation's billionaires and millionaires. 


If you want to listen to the song I listened to on my morning walk today...its Sting 'Message in a bottle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2o4zxtqNZ4

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Facebook Community Standards and the 2019 True Teacher Education Activist


I decided, to write a Facebook post about the June 
10, 2019 the New Haven Public School Advocates call for people to come attend the Board of Education Meeting to speak up against cutting more teachers. Once again, Facebook has decided a Education Activist Literacy Professor is too much to handle. Perhaps, telling parents and teachers to stand up and fight back against these school budget cuts is just too radical for Facebook.
Maybe using the words fight back, is too much for Facebook. Or maybe I tagged the wrong people. Or maybe a Literacy Professor who not only defends his students and teachers in the school house, but outside is too much for Facebook to handle. Either way this True Teacher can't be silence!
I let my reader decide


So connecticut, it is that time of year again, when public schools in Black, Brown, and Poor Communities when cities announced layoffs, school closings, and cut librarians, special education and reading teachers, social workers, and after school programs. Maybe cut a few more art and music teachers. After all poor children don't need smaller class sizes, specialized support staff, or art and music...these things are for our more White schools, our more wealthy schools. Every education reformer know poor kids need test prep, and little else. They are already behind, and they don't have time for frills. Test prep for the poor, and the world for our Wealthy White Public Schools. Give those Black, Brown, and Poor kds that tough love.  

Why, are the cuts always in poor communities?
Because, someone has to pay for this regressive income tax that rewards the wealthy by asking them to pay less, and punishes the poor by demanding they pay more. It's an old scam, hurt the ones who can't fight back, rewards the one who write the big checks to your campaigns.

It's the heart of Systemic Racism. See the truth if if we don't fight back we lose. 
Fight back, New Haven parents
Fight back, New Haven teachers,
Fight back, New Haven students,
If, you don't fight back, you can't win.
Fight BACK, Dr. Jesse P. Turner 
Moral Monday Connecticut Ambassador
If you like to listen to the beat I listened to on my walk this morning, its all Hip Hop today, there is a f bomb drop once or twice in B-Mor7 "This is America" https://soundcloud.com/b-mor-seven/reflect-this-is-america-part-ii