Closing Doors...

I've made the decision to step away from public education advocacy...

 

After four years of almost full-time focus on what's been happening in Seattle and nationally...

 

I like to think that I've had some small effect in slowing down the implementation of the ed deform agenda - at the very least, in WITNESSING it, declaring to the oligarchs: "I know what you're doing, it's not OK and you're not doing it in my name - or my son's!"

I'm driven by a sense of urgency not many other people have...

 

And I've been pushing and pushing against ed deform, pushing for people, especially teachers to wake up, stand up, step up, break free...

 

here: MiseducationNation

 

and here: Taking the Narrative - De-Railing the Ed Reform Train

 

and here: Teachers - Standing Up, Stepping Up, Breaking Free

 

and here: Which Side Are You On?

 

and on Twitter and all over the web and at rallies and school board meetings and in newspapers...

 

got lots of defensiveness back from both parents and teachers, coming out of fear I know...

 

I'm having trouble dealing with my frustration at what I see as teachers' reluctance to accept the reality, the urgency and to step up and do what's required to effectively push back against ed deform... 

 

Ed deform hurts children, abuses children, stunts their beings, uses them as cash cows...

 

And from my perspective, teachers, by continuing to implement ed deform, are complicit in that child abuse...

 

AND I do appreciate what it is they especially have to lose if they get serious about standing in front of the bulldozer of the corporate rape and pillaging of public education...

 

 

AND at some point, we each have to say "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more"...

 

 

I can't keep working in this arena with this degree of frustration, so I'm stepping away...

I have taken the boy out of the education system altogether and we shall focus on educating for and living life in as wholistic a fashion as we can possibly manage...

I wish we could do that for, and with, all children...

 

And so, we go on...

 

 

 

 

 

I'm As Mad As Hell & I'm Not Going To Take This Anymore...