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.

7th November 2011

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To educate for liberation is to tear down prison walls that had colonized our imaginations and held our minds captive. I Occupy Education. New Orleans Liberation Academy is an emerging grassroots community-based, democratic school based in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The Lower 9th Ward community, the city of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast is our classroom. The challenges our communities face and our collective vision for the future is our curriculum. To learn more and/or get involved with making education a practice of liberation in New Orleans, visit www.liberationacademy.blogspot.com.

To educate for liberation is to tear down prison walls that had colonized our imaginations and held our minds captive.

I Occupy Education.

New Orleans Liberation Academy is an emerging grassroots community-based, democratic school based in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The Lower 9th Ward community, the city of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast is our classroom. The challenges our communities face and our collective vision for the future is our curriculum.

To learn more and/or get involved with making education a practice of liberation in New Orleans, visit www.liberationacademy.blogspot.com.

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