As Wisconsin Teachers and other public employees rally by the tens of thousands for their right to bargain we have an opportunity to send a message about what we believe our country’s priorities should be.
Are we a country that gives millionaire’s and corporations tax cuts and then tells our public employees, including our teachers, that they have to sacrifice their wages and benefits because of hard economic times?
It’s time to put children first. Why now? Children lead us to clear action. We don’t hesitate- we rush near to the child that falls off the climbing structure, we help the six year old carefully pouring juice for his younger brother, we try to notice and name the everyday ways of youth act with care—we just do it. Children make us practice love. And when we do so on a larger plane, we work towards justice. And at this moment- when fair health care is being repackaged as “job killing,” when guns are enabling us to kill each other, and visions of “the other” are offered routinely and with hate- we need to act.
(reprint from Fair Test)
Waiting for Superman may be good melodrama, but the movie fails the test of accuracy, and its purported solutions will not improve education.
We agree: Too many young people, mostly low-income, do not graduate from high school or get a strong education. The questions are why, and what can be done about it. Waiting for Superman and its unprecedented hype risk leading us dangerously astray from real solutions to real problems by making a number of misleading or factually incorrect claims in a number of important areas:
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