The Day NJ Parents Occupied the State DOE
The February 10th NJ State Board of Education meeting was a watershed moment in the NJ Opt-Out movement. Here's my report from the field.
Newton's third law says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
So, when Commissioner Hespe, sitting smugly on his throne at the February 10th State Board of Ed meeting and borrowing a page from Arne Duncan’s book of anti-middle class rhetoric, proclaimed the NJ Opt Out movement last year was nothing more than a bunch of high school students* not wanting to take the test...
As Bari Ehrlichson gushed over the wonderfulness and fabulousness of the CCSS and PARCC, and practically compared Language Arts writing prompts currently used by elementary school teachers to coloring books...
As Hespe proclaimed, “This is what educators want! This is the promise and we’re delivering!”...
As board member Dorothy Strickland, stricken with a severe case of the vapors over the CCSS and PARCC, proclaimed, “I’m so thrilled!... Delighted!”...
... a storm was brewing.
Parents were traveling from all over the state to Trenton for the afternoon session of testimony.
I've attended and testified at many State Board of Ed meetings, but this one was Marie Corfield: The Day NJ Parents Occupied the State DOE:
