This is a collection of adults and children's messages that challenge public school to become something more than it is - messages that dare public school to serve students' passions instead of politicians and vendors' coffers.
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.

1st November 2011

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I Occupy Education… by HOME EDUCATING!  Our kids are kept out of a conventional classroom, where their natural boyish traits are too often pathologized.  We provide out BOYS with an environment that is safe, FREE and VALIDATING so that they can DO and LEARN they way nature intended - CONFIDENT to TRY (and fail) ANYTHING again and again…..

I Occupy Education… by HOME EDUCATING!  Our kids are kept out of a conventional classroom, where their natural boyish traits are too often pathologized.  We provide out BOYS with an environment that is safe, FREE and VALIDATING so that they can DO and LEARN they way nature intended - CONFIDENT to TRY (and fail) ANYTHING again and again…..

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  1. Chris G submitted this to occupyedu