Please read *this article* from Valerie Strauss on the notion of teachers as conscientious objectors.
Strauss points to Diane Ravitch's profile of NY teacher Rick Bobrick:
"Bobrick, a veteran teacher in New York who is tired of being forced to administer to students high-stakes tests that he thinks are punitive and antithetical to real learning. He wants teachers to have the right to opt out of administering standardized tests they think are harmful to students. As it is now, teachers can be fired for refusing to administer a mandated test."
I'm hip to Bobrick's efforts and desires and will raise ya one: What if there was an effort from citizens to conscientiously object to paying taxes to national and local governments supporting abusive educational policies?
AND eager for your help. Have a story of power, manipulation, self-interest or injustice which needs attention? Let me know and we'll let the world discover "what's that smell."
"If you're a profession of sheep, then you'll be run by wolves." -- David C. Berliner
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: Everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire
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