The heavies have just emerged from the third-floor movie theater where Michelle Rhee’s “Students First” group is showing the controversial movie “Won’t Back Down.” One stands imposingly tall, big shoulders swelling his dark red shirt. The other is shorter, stockier, clad in bright blue. Both wear black ties. The man in blue seems to be in charge.
“You have to leave,” he tells us.
This is an awkward moment. Admittedly we’re carrying giant yellow pencils made from pool noodles, and wearing signs – “More Teaching, Less Testing,” “Closing Schools Doesn’t Help” – that don’t exactly mesh