So many of the divisions and false notions of social order we cling to as adults are entrenched in the culture of public education. We want to take our next step in challenging that culture, and we ask for your help in helping us capture and share counter-narratives to today's test-addled, pop notions of schooling.
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School: An institution that prepares young people for a life of freedom and democracy without letting them partake in either.
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Education should not be a debt sentence. #StudentLoans #OWS
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Southwest Detroit Freedom School lead the MayDay 2012 march in Detroit 5/1
As we marched by Western International High School with the MayDay Coalition, the school was on lock down, and the shades were ordered shut. Now they want to prevent other students from even watching others participate in democracy?
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(via MAY DAY of Action for Education! #OccupyEDU « Cooperative Catalyst)
Today all over the country students, educators, parents and community members are taking part in the May Day of Action. There are many ways to support this day of action. One way is to make your voice heard online. Today we will be collecting blog posts and twitter/facebook status message and pictures and posters in support of this day of action for education. Please joins us in a Blogger March, our collective vision and collective voice for real education transformation is important and powerful!
Here are a few ways you can take part:
- Join your local general strike by not going to school, or work, and by not shopping or banking!
- Join a protest locally or regionally! Many student and teacher lead walk outs are happening all over the country.
- Go into the commons! Used public spaces to host conversations around education transformation or direct democracy.
- Unschool your children or yourself for the day, Learn something you are passionate about, that you are not tested on, that is not found in a text book.
- Make your voice heard at Occupy Education Tumblr page by submitting a picture of why and how you are Occupying Education!
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#LetOurVoicesBeHeard | Western International High School | Southwest Detroit (by SouthwestKnoxx)
Our Demands to the Detroit Public School System are the following:
1. Don’t close Southwestern High School.
2. Don’t close Maybury Elementary.
3. Remove suspensions for students involved in the walkout.
4. Don’t keep students away from school for walking out to stand up for what they believe.
5. Don’t want suspensions to go on our student records.
6. Don’t press criminal charges against students’ involved in the walkout.
7. Don’t violate students’ rights.
8. Don’t take students’ phones and search through & delete their content.
9. Don’t lay hands on students. No more physical attacks on students by security guards.
10. No more favoritism in who is & is not being targeted for suspension.
11. No more favoritism to certain students, student groups, or sports teams.
12. Honor the DPS Code of Conduct.
13. School Supplies: toilet paper, hand soap, etc.
14. Clean bathrooms, facilities.
15. Stop making students feel like we’re in prison.
16. Higher expectations for students.
17. Better college prep.
18. Stability— teachers who will actually be there for us, who are qualified.
19. Protection of teachers & their union.
20. We want equal opportunity to education.
21. Stop selling away community assets.
22. We’re students, not money signs or criminals. Stop running school like a business or a prison.
23. Give students an equal say in what goes on in all DPS schools. Give students a place in decision-making process. We want a Voice.
24. We need to invest more into our education than what our test scores are gonna be.
25. We need a better education— not students’ fault that money isn’t being used correctly.
26. We need teachers that teach, adequate books and supplies.
27. Remove the Emergency Financial Manager. Give control of schools back to community by reinstating the School Board.
28. Stop closing DPS schools. Go with what we have, stop closing everything down. Fix what we have. Stop closing DPS schools and allowing the chartering of so many schools. Stop turning schools into for profit businesses.
29. WE DEMAND RESPECT!!!!
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#LetOurVoicesBeHeard | Western International High School | Southwest Detroit (by SouthwestKnoxx)
“They’re just trying to control us… They treat us like we are in a prison, but we’re not! It’s a school! We’re suppose being educated, not oppressed” -student protester
Signs/quotes
“Defend Education”
“No More Charters”
“Save DPS”
“Our school system should work with us not against us”
“Our education shouldn’t have a price tag!”
“Schools are not suppose to run as businesses”
“Education is a long term investment”
“We are People! We are Not dollar signs!”
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Education is not for sale from Taiwan to Quebec
One World One Struggle
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I am a Teacher. I taught student who had dropped out of high school because it wasn’t working for them:
- Big Class size
- Endless standardized tests
- Charter schools more like military schools
All the education “reform” of the 1% are destroying our public schools.
So I came to Zuccotti Park and #occupy and I’ve given every day of my life to it since September 17th and I’m just getting started…
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For me, education is all about helping students learn about the complexity of the world around them. I want them to know what they think about important issues and to build the skills to communicate those ideas in authentic ways:
Educated, articulate, thoughtful voices equals democracy! Raise our voice.
Occupy Education!
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Today all over the country students, educators, parents and community members are taking part in Day of Action for Education Transformation. There are many ways to support this day of action. One way is to make your voice heard online. Today we will be collecting blog posts and twitter/facebook status message and pictures and posters in support of this day of action for education. Please joins us in a Blogger March, our collective vision and collective voice for real education transformation is important and powerful!
Here are a few ways you can take part:
- Please join us by making your voice heard at Occupy Education and submitting a picture of why and how you are Occupying Education!
- Submit your Occupy Education Pictures here Please share with us your stories of powerful learning in community. Take a picture of yourself holding a sign that highlights a few ways you are transforming education and/or share the countless, unique ways you help to keep democracy alive in public education. If you are a student, tell us what helps you learn best. Tell us what would make learning more meaningful for you. If you are a parent, tell us what kind of learning environment you want for your children. Tell us what schools should be focusing on. Below that, write “I occupy education.” or “I occupy my classroom” If you don’t show your whole face, please show at least part of it. Please have your note be hand written. Please do your best to be concise. Reclaim your voice in education transformation.
- here are a few examples
- Share your voice via a blog post and make public why you Occupy Education!
- Topic ideas:
- Reclaiming Our Voice In Education!
- Student Voice (why it is important)
- What kind of learning environment do you want for yourself, your students, or your children?
- How do you put the public back in Public School?
- How do we provide space for democracy in the classroom?
- Is school an environment for democracy?
- or anything you feel relates to education and the occupy movement? Submit the links here or email them to Coopcatalyst@gmail.com
- Please use the hashtag #occupyeduM1
- Please Join us at Occupy Education on Tumblr,Facebook and Twitter!
- Add I occupy education or I march for education…. on your status and keep them up today.
- Contact your School Board, your Congress person, your local DOE, email Arne Duncan, or others and tell share with them your vision of education transformation.
- Bring up education at your workplace, or school, or class, or any place your gather today.
As we stand up to rally on the steps of city hall or at the Department of Education, or at school board meetings or state capitals, let us rally for a Transformed education, for a positive vision of learning, for education and learning that matters.
Let’s use our energy and our coming together to OPT IN to what we want our education to look like, and start to collectively move both locally and nationally towards these visions.
What is your positive vision for a transformed education?
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Tomorrow is Occupy Education Day of Action. Please submit a new Occupy Education Picture on here
Or write a blog post for the Occupy Education Blogger March
On the why you Occupy Education or your vision for a transformed education system.
send your blog links to Coopcatalyst@gmail.com
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March 1 Day of Action for Education Nationwide →
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Sorry for the inconvenience, We are Fighting For Our Education!
My sign for the strike March 1.
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