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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(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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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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10 months ago, I quit school to get a Real Life and Education.
In School, I….
- was constantly stressed.
- didn’t have to time to relax or be with my family.
- was told I was stupid by teachers and their grades.
- wasn’t really learning.
Now, I …
- am happy and helathy.
- have control over my time.
- know I’m smart.
- feel good about myself.
- am learning, living, and loving it!!!
I OCCUPY EDUCATION!
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I Occupy Education by helping to bring communities together through helping us understand our similarities rather than only focusing on our differences! I work in an environment where not all of my ideals mesh with the standards of the company, but I see HOPE and I SPEAK POWER to that HOPE, and I BELIEVE I am transforming community education every day!!!
I Occupy Education by not forgetting those INSIDE and OUTSIDE of the system, both educators and students, praying for their freedom, so that their own thoughts, their own voice, might reclaim what their heart is already telling them what they already know.
I Occupy Education by PROMOTING Progressive Learning to future educators. I do this by speaking its voice, writing its narrative, and by living its truth. I believe in its necessity, for the betterment of America and the betterment of the world.
I will always Occupy Education by standing up for the type of learning that transforms people and not capitalist agendas. I will always Occupy Education if it means working to improve how we all learn and will learn and who we can learn from, both in the present, the past and the future.
I Occupy Education. I am the Holistic Education. The Progressive Educator. The Community Educator. The 99% Educator. I am ME!
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Parents Occupy Piccolo school in Chicago for 24hrs on Fri/Sat Feb. 17th-18th. They won a meeting with the Board of Education to discuss alternatives to turnarounds, and they ended their occupation (so far).
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Everyone has heard about the Occupy Wall St. movement and its spread to involve most major cities and small towns of the U.S. All of this talk about revolution and corporate take down has stirred the hearts of activists internationally, sparking the hearts of thousands of people, but what does it have to do with education? What has the Occupy movement said about our education besides asking for college to be free? It is time that education joins the occupy movement and for these institutions we call “school” to be radically changed.
There is one question we can all ask ourselves; How important is education to you?
It’s something we all experience during our lives, and your schooling, whether you liked it or not, is something that has shaped the person you are today. It’s a tool of change and it has turned into a challenge of endurance. Knowing that you have to wake up every day and drag yourself to a fluorescent-lighted building to sit awake through the same monotonous schedule day after day. Go home and force yourself to do the allotted homework, go to sleep and awake to do the whole thing over again, five days a week is a mental climb of perseverance.
School should be a place of self-realization and learning, not a place of struggle. It should be self motivated and specifically tailored to fit the students’ needs. It shouldn’t be boring or impossible to keep up with, it should be stimulating. It should have classes that you have to push to keep up with and others that are enjoyable and fun.
With the continual budget cuts imposed by governors and politicians nationwide, schools are going to have to continue to cut the programs that really matter to us students: the classes and electives we enjoy and that help produce our intellectual, artistic growth; the classes that actually prepare us for our lives.
It’s time that we show the people who make laws about our education that we take it more seriously. That’s why we, as high school students, are fed up with the current educational regime. We’ve decided to take a stand and show that we truly care about our education and where it takes us.
Occupy High is a movement we have created to illustrate this. It’s a voluntary Saturday school/ study hall to show the people in charge of our future, to take our needs and our voices into consideration. It involves classes taught by experts ranging from photographer to poets to chefs, that are open to all ages. as well as a class every week taught by a fellow student of Vista Grande. It will be place to catch up on school-work. A place where the student can become the teacher and community can come together to learn from each other every Saturday.
We are standing up for what we believe is important in our lives and we encourage schools nation-wide to follow suit. Like our page on Facebook and tell us what you feel about our movement. All suggestions are welcome and all support helps, no matter how small.
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