Jesse “The Walking Man” Turner is a hero and deserves our help
Jesse “The Walking Man Turner” is walking from Connecticut to Washington DC this summer to protest the education malpractice that is demoralizing parents, teachers, and turning our children into human capital.
Jesse is successfully raising awareness and support for students, teachers and our nation’s public schools.
He is walking to Washington DC to tell our nation’s “leaders” that it is time to put “public” back into the debate about our public schools.
The Corporate Education Reform Industry has then corporate executives and hundreds of millions of dollars “influence” the political and policy making system by “investing” in electing candidates who will do their bidding.
We have Jesse Turner and tens of thousands of other public school advocates, activists and supporters.
Calling Connecticut home, Jesse Turner is a professor of literacy at Central Connecticut State University with a Ph.D. in Language, Reading, and Culture. He know what is going on in our public school classrooms, knows the challenges children and teachers face and he is continually using his talent, time and energy to make a difference.
As he notes on is web page he walks because Moses walked, because the Cherokee walked, because the Navajo walked, because Martin Luther King Jr. walked, and because Cesar Chavez walked.
Jesse Turners says that walking may just be the most potent weapon human beings have against oppression.
And he walks because childhood matters, because children come first and we have to tell our nation’s leaders that our children, their teachers and local public schools are more than test scores.
Please take a moment to read up about Jesse and his walk to Washington and help this important cause by making a contribution, not matter how large or small.