Friends Don't Let Friends Get Fooled by "Won't Back Down": 5 Reasons Why | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity

Friends Don't Let Friends Get Fooled by "Won't Back Down": 5 Reasons Why | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity:

Friends Don't Let Friends Get Fooled by "Won't Back Down": 5 Reasons Why

Posted on: Friday September 28th, 2012

5 Things You Should Know About the Pro-Parent Trigger Film
and the Real Parents Who Won't Back Down

Guess what the OTL Campaign won't be doing this weekend? That's right, we will not be taking our friends to see the premiere of Won't Back Down.

The new film, which chronicles the fictional parent takeover of an underperforming school in Pittsburgh, is the latest creation of Walden Media, the same production firm responsible for Waiting for Superman.

Like Waiting for Superman, Won't Back Down's true corporate message hides behind a cascade of swelling music, ham-fisted dialogue, and cartoonish villains. The new film purports that by empowering parents through a "Parent Trigger" law to take over their schools, fire staff and turn public schools into charter schools, all the woes of our nation's education system can be solved, all