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...

 

 

 

 

 

Out With The Old?

There's a flaw in my perception that I have known about for years and not been able to eradicate...

Somehow, somewhere I have come to believe that everything will change/get better once realisation occurs...

Or after an energetically special time (like Solstice/Yule/Christmas/New Year)...

And I ALWAYS have to deal with the disappointment that things have not magically transformed...

Or at least not in any discernible way in that time frame...

And then its back to dealing with the reality of the chaos we are creating/living through on the way to a new pattern in the kaleidoscope of life...

 

Russ offered: " It's been my experience that even broken bones once set properly and healing correctly still hurt and the change is imperceptible for a time! Just remember that even seeds of change need time to grow!" 

 

And Doug sent me these words and this clip:
"Halfway into the third part of this very informative presentation, this segment examines exactly what you're talking about. And after years of feeling this way, this clip finally helped be break this mental pattern. Highly recommended watch."

 

 

Loving Chaos...

 

"I would like to beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. 

Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. 

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. 

Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

- Rainer Maria Rilke