Oregon Save Our Schools: When Students Speak, We Should Listen

Oregon Save Our Schools: When Students Speak, We Should Listen:

When Students Speak, We Should Listen

photo by Bette Lee

When it comes to public education, it seems no one ever asks those who know best: students and teachers.  Doing so would save our state a lot of grief, stress, and wasted time and money.

In Portland Public Schools, where the district is inching closer and closer to a strike as contract negotiations drag out, students express their voices over what they value in their education.  In the following article, "Portland Students Pack School Board Meeting, Back Teachers Union," Alexia Garcia shares insight regarding not only what our students think and want for their quality public education but also why they protested.

Oregon Save Our Schools founder and school board member, Steve Buel, was the only board member to stay and honor the voices of the students.  He and Oregon SOS are proud of Oregon students standing up for themselves, their teachers, and those