Propaganda, Thy Name Is "Won't Back Down"
Here's what "Won't Back Down" was really all about:
Can life, in fact, imitate art? Organizers leading a controversial new school reform movement are doing their darndest to try. Starting this week, the education reform group Parent Revolution kicked off a national 32-city tour with “Won’t Back Down,” the slick new Hollywood movie featuring the hot-button fight around a policy called the parent trigger. Parent Revolution wants to inspire parents to do what Oscar-caliber actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis do in the film: Take over their failing schools. Critics—including teachers’ unions and many of public schools’ staunches defenders—warn that real life educating isn’t that simple.Parent Revolution’s idea is to host the film, which traces a fictionalized community’s fight