What is it you have accomplished? Other than tear apart the relationships between the parents and teachers? I'm so glad I saw right through the lies and crap they were feeding the parents.... And the sadder part is that they have had no shame in passing on those lies without a shred of research of backup!!!! I read so many articles regarding the people involved and the truths about them and their organization and it makes me sick!!! Why would you join these people is taking away our free education to make them even richer!!!!
I read this and I completely agree with this statement.....
But giving the current parents the power to close the school or to hand it over to a private management company is akin to saying that whoever uses any public facility should have the same power, the power to transfer control to a private entity. It means if those who use Central Park in Manhattan don't like the way the city of New York takes care of it, they should be able to sign a petition and privatize it. If a majority of those who patronize a national park sign a petition, they should be able to hand control of the park over to private managers. This makes no sense.
Heres more from an article....
But consider who created the Parent Trigger. The promoter of the legislation was a group called Parent Revolution, which is funded by charter school operators (it has some affiliation with Green Dot, whose chief executive officer sits on the board of Parent Revolution) and by venture philanthropists (including the Broad Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the Wasserman Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation). Its executive director, Ben Austin, a lawyer, was appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger to California's state board of education (and removed by Gov. Jerry Brown when he took office in 2011).
Parent Revolution is what is known as an "Astroturf" group (Astroturf refers to apparently grassroots-based citizen groups or coalitions that are primarily conceived, created and/or funded by corporations, industry trade associations, political interests or public relations firms), an organization pretending to be representative of ordinary parents, but actually promoting a charter agenda.
The shakeup on the board, one that removes Austin and his ‘ilk’ means that vocal proponents of radical educational de-forms such as the “parent trigger” (a privately funded law by Green Dot and the mastermind of Austin), will be absent from the new board of education. This might be the first shot in the battle to draw the lines on public versus private education and it will signal to other states that faux groups such as Parent Revolution and Green Dot ‘private schools’ are no longer wanted within educational circles. This could all be good news for working people struggling to assure that a decent public education is provided to students and that teachers, the front line workers in an effort to educate children, will not acceed this debate to Bill Gates and his ‘poodle’ Austin nor any other privatizers looking to make a buck off of our kids.
I'm sorry, but what do we get from allowing rich people to run our schools. Do you actually believe that these people are going to give you control of what they are investing in?
Like I said, it's freaking hilarious how ignorant most of you are!!! What really happened in Compton? What happened was... when they didn't get what they wanted so they made it look like they did.... What happened was that Austin (Mr. Parent Revolution himself) got Celerity (a charter school organization) to open a charter school a few blocks away... LMAO!!!! And only 33% of the parents actually moved their children there... What happened to all those other parents that said they wanted that for their kids??? What did they win? Nothing.... and guess what... those of you with special needs children.... You won't be going to our school anymore.... charters don't HAVE TO take special needs children... and most of them don't!!!
What I want to know is why everything had to be done so secretively... Why no public meetings where parents can ask questions to those running things... BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT QUESTIONS ASKED... they can manipulate a few group of parents to do their dirty work, but wont hold public meetings to allow those to be fully educated and have the opportunity to ask anything that would shed light to their real agenda? People... stop being freaking muses to the rich people... Don't you know they will find any way they can to make money off of you.... Do you really believe they are spending millions to help you and want nothing in return... Why don't they just give those millions of dollars to the schools to help with budget cuts and reduced staff... Because they don't really give a crap about our schools... they do give a crap about making money which is why THEY CREATED THE TRIGGER LAW to begin with!!!
UGH!!!!!! It doesnt' matter how many times I try to explain to these parents that they're being used.... people don't like hearing they've been used much less admit it... it's easier to keep doing what they've been doing so they don't look stupid!!! Oh you feel stupid when Parent Revolution goes down.. They're using you so they don't get shut down. Rich people don't like feeling stupid or like they're wasting their money and as of right now Parent Revolution has done NOTHING but waste who knows how much of our taxpayer money to fight them in court... Rich people are spending too much on something that they are seeing no return on so they're desperate to show the rich people that they can make them money before they get shut down as another failed rich people project...
THEY, unlike us, don't worry about their kids education cuz they go to RICH schools... They need to find ways to make money and taking away our free education is one way... DO YOU KNOW THAT STATISTICALLY ONLY ONE IN FIVE CHARTER SCHOOLS SUCCEED!!! ONE IN FIVE!!!
This is what is keeping me up at night!!!! STUPID MOTHER EFFING PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO IGNORANT TO RESEARCH BEFORE THEY SIGN UP FOR SHIZNIT!!!! UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH!!!!!
Tell me this.... How many of you logged in hours IN YOUR KIDS classroom last year... or the year before...
The people running these parents are the same parents who screwed up our PTA!!!! Our PTA is being investigated because of some of the women who started this.... They are the ones who REFUSED to follow district and PTA bylaws to suit THEIR OWN NEEDS! and as soon as sign of trouble was presented.. THEY RESIGN and leave the parents who are REALLY there for the kids to clean up their mess.... After this year there will be NO PTA because of what they did!!! And THESE ARE THE WOMEN WHO ARE CONVINCING OUR PARENTS TO GIVE THEM CONTROL??? which is another hilarious thing in itself... DO they really think THEY will have control of the school..... lmao again.... the rich people decide that... most of you won't be allowed into their schools!!!!
Ok, I think I've ranted enough... Oh wait.. I never finished my thoughts on how MOST OF YOU HAVE NEVER SPENT MORE THAN A COMBINED TOTAL OF ONE HOUR IN YOUR CHILDS CLASSROOM!!! I'm sorry but being on the PTA and running around campus doesn't make you a part of YOUR CHILDS education.... I know what goes on in my childrens classes because I'm there... I don't assume to know what goes on from heresay... Most of you can't even say that!!! Over the years that I have been here I have seen the things go on and the sad thing is you guys say YOU TRIED EVERYTHING!!! You have the nerve to say you tried working with the school.... WHEN??? Please tell me the date and time you sat down with teachers to discuss what was best for your children... Or WHEN you gave the district an opportunity to fix our school... which I believe they HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO BY GIVING US NEW PRINCIPALS LIKE WE ASKED.... What is it that you have fought for ... BEFORE PARENT REVOLUTION.... that they didn't listen to?? And if the district doesn't do what YOU want then you must overtake it??? WTF!!!! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!!!!
I'm not even done but starting to get tired so I'm taking this opportunity to sleep cuz TRUST ME... I have plenty more to say!!!
I apologize for spelling and grammar errors... its late and i'm pissed and those of you who know me know I would never knowingly post anything with mispells or grammar errors.... and with that... GOODNIGHT YA'LL!!!
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