thank Lisa Vozza ReteScuole for bringing attention to this important testimony, and to have it translated into Italian.
"Parents of public schools, unite!" SANDRA TSING LOH
Posted on a blog of the New York Times today - http://campaignstops.blogs.
... Yet even though the odds may not seem on our side, as a mother in the public school trenches, I am very optimistic about the prospects of this brave new era. The weather is perfect for a revival of the Jeffersonian ideals most Americans - the quality of public education, accessible to all - where an educated citizenry is the heart of a thriving democracy . It may seem strange, but the first extraordinary opportunity for public education in America is just the ' economic apocalypse. The thirty-year habit to continue to privatize our little corners of democracy, use a credit card to escape to our public spaces , is finally dying. Even in Los Angeles private schools are feeling the blow, since families can no longer afford fees exceeding $ 20,000 and are going in public schools. Sure, maybe you will go first to charter schools (Translator's note that private schools are not asking for the line and receive public subsidies in exchange for
to adhere to certain curricular and other parameters), but in the gradual transition from competitive to think the common thinking is already a first step.
On top of all this, the President-elect Obama has launched a sea of \u200b\u200bemotional change that has given hope to all, even at public schools!
...
I believe that this renaissance is born in Washington, but has grown by many small claims gems in every city, from the smallest to largest.
Here in Los Angeles a group of enthusiastic mothers, including myself, have formed a committee to promote the organization
activism in public schools, led by their mothers. We are outraged at the continued budget cuts (California is the ninth largest economy in the world and is placed at 48 for funding of public education
) and the absolute waste of dollars in the budget for education (Los Angeles spends $ 79 million to ' year by consultants from 2001 to 2007, while enrollment fell by 6 per cent and
500 teaching posts were cut, the administrative costs of our bureaucracy swelled by nearly 20 per cent).
Our business has evolved from blogs to street demonstrations, to the fundraising and political action. Our first mom, Angel Zobel-Rodriguez, was presented to the school board. Has not earned any spoils of war, but we have only volunteers his
side. When you are nominated, in the space where the application was made for the profession, wrote simply "Mother."
's just a beginning, but we have time (my youngest is in first grade
). And as the Democrats now in charge, we have the Internet. Parents
long alienated from the discussion on public education on a national scale,
we are beginning to realize that real change depends on us .
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