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.

Her Lamp is no less dim 139 years later

On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. The teacher read L is for Liberty by Wendy Cheyette Lewison and Laura Freeman Hines. Next this image appeared on the board, and that inspirational Jewish Poet Emma Lazarus lived again in young hearts. 

Then her voice lived again as the teacher read her New Colossus Poem

                                        Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The children asked a million questions about the statue, about Emma, and understood her message loud and clear. The teacher did not address ICE in the streets. She did not mention your name, she understood that Emma Lazarus far outshines the hater in our White House. For your information Emma Lazarus still outshines you in the hearts of our children. While ICE Agents are shooting pastors directly in the face with pepper bullets, and tear casing the Halloween parades of young children and their families in this place your hate was crushed by the poem of a young Jewish poet some 139 years ago. For your information the lesson needed with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is your land, and we all sang along. 

Emma still inspires school children from 1886 to 2025. She is the real danger to a President without empathy, historical memory and humanity. 

Well, Mr. President, her words and that lamp lifted high still inspire children. Her light far outshines your king's dreams. 

TRUTH BE TOLD you can't touch her spirit, for she outshines Steven Miller's war on immigrants. 

Dr. Jesse P. Turner 

Professor Emeritus Literacy, Elementary, and Early Childhood Education.

 If you would like to hear what song inspires my morning walk today? 

It's the Avett Brother's cover of Woody Guthrie's "The land Is Your Land"

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z3efR2Fu18 <

1886 the lamp is first lifted in America 

ICE Thugs 41 shots 2025

 

Black Lives Matter, truth rises, now ICE shots Pastors praying with pepper balls, and racial profiling any one who looks Spanish. 

I refuse to go back, if these ICE bullies come to my neighborhood, I shall defend my clergy, my neighbors, and my streets, and come 26 and 28, we are going to vote these bigots in the White House and Congress out. Then we are going to fire everyone of these ICE Thugs.

We know who they are, these 41 shots thugs, and we are not going to let them win.

Bruce Springsteen called them out in 41 shots my skin >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMqWAiWPMs