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.

2nd November 2011

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To whom it may concern,I, April Parent, have learned french as a second language, not in elementary nor secondary school in Ontario, but in an Adult education center in Montreal Quebec.  I find the methods easier to understand, it is a friendly atmosphere, and they don’t speak English, Spanish or any other language in their class rooms.I believe installing certain methods would probably be helpful for students, and Canada as a Bi-lingual country. Methods included using only french to communicate amongst students, grade system based on comprehension, verb conjugation charts of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd verb groups, verbal pronunciation, oral comprehension, written comprehension, the list goes on and on.I occupy education. 

To whom it may concern,
I, April Parent, have learned french as a second language, not in elementary nor secondary school in Ontario, but in an Adult education center in Montreal Quebec.  I find the methods easier to understand, it is a friendly atmosphere, and they don’t speak English, Spanish or any other language in their class rooms.
I believe installing certain methods would probably be helpful for students, and Canada as a Bi-lingual country.
Methods included using only french to communicate amongst students, grade system based on comprehension, verb conjugation charts of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd verb groups, verbal pronunciation, oral comprehension, written comprehension, the list goes on and on.

I occupy education. 

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