Power can be found in numbers. I read somewhere that there are around 2.6 million public school teachers in the United States. Those figures may be off, but the point is.... there are million of us out there.
If your sick of No Child Left Behind. Sick of all this mindless high-stakes standardized assessment, sick of being treated like crap, sick of goober politicians, then it's time to be heard.
If all 2.6 million, or even half that number took some type of proactive measure to make people aware of the "real" state of education, then attention would be paid. There are lots of collective (legal and ethical) things educators can do? There is very little we can do alone. Collectively, we can move mountains. Too many people are content to allow uninformed politicians and gasbag talk radio personalities do our thinking for us.
Most Americans have no idea what is happening in schools. Granted not all is bad, but enough bad is going unnoticed that it's bound to get worse.
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