More Pushback from Around the Country
Do you hear that sound echoing across the country?
It's the sound of parents saying "Enough." And it is spreading throughout the country and I believe if parents stay strong and united, it will defeat this tide of ed reform and testing craziness that is really the problem with making strong academic outcomes for all students.
It's the sound of parents saying "Enough." And it is spreading throughout the country and I believe if parents stay strong and united, it will defeat this tide of ed reform and testing craziness that is really the problem with making strong academic outcomes for all students.
- In Missouri, from the Fired Up! website, a story of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst group trying to create "grassroots" interest in her initiatives. Last Wednesday they held a luncheon. The invite went like this: Do you want get involved in the effort to improve Missouri schools?
Come down to The Fig Tree Café and Bakery to share some good food with other Missourians who care about education. Find out more about how we can keep great Missouri teachers in the classroom and increase the number of quality public schools in our state. Fired Up! says this: The funny part? No one showed up. Not one grassroots activist came. Event organizers were forced to cancel the luncheon.
But here's the real question: are you really grassroots if no one shows up? Can you call yourself a grassroots organization if you spend millions upon millions of Rupert Murdoch and Koch Brothers' money to advance legislation that attacks working families and even your astroturf activists don't show up?
Here's the thing, this isn't the first time Rhee and her Students Rhee First campaign has had such a
To All the Moms
Happy Mother's Day! (And my love to Mom in Arizona.)
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. -Jill Churchill
Mothers are all slightly insane. -J.D. Salinger
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
-W. R. Wallace
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. -Jill Churchill
Mothers are all slightly insane. -J.D. Salinger
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
-W. R. Wallace