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I just posted the following a comment on Will Richardson’s blog post, How Can You Not Be Angry?<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Will,<\/p>\n

I salute you. Stay angry!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You may remember that my New Year’s resolution was to swear more. That resolution was only partially tongue-in-cheek. We need to scream, swear, pull our pants down, wear costumes and whatever else it takes to save our public treasure (schools) from becoming the plaything of Gates, Murdoch and Broad. We are in deep trouble (kids are in worse trouble) if we don’t drop teacher civility and continue to be victimized.<\/p>\n

As for swearing, Bill Gates called constructivism<\/a> – a scientific theory as valid as gravity or evolution – bullshit<\/a> IN PUBLIC AND IN PRINT. The quote appears within a few sentences of my comments in a recent Wired article<\/a>. If Bill Gates calls the work of me and my colleagues, mentors and friends bullshit, how should I respond? Set up a VoiceThread? Make an Animoto? Decorate my bulletin boards with orange construction paper?<\/p>\n

I always cite Abbie Hoffman<\/a> as one of my heroes. Satire, mockery, outrageous behavior, civil disobedience and the courage of patriots helped end segregation and the War in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Teachers have changed the world, occasionally even in the United States. In 1964-65,\u00a0 African Americans in Alabama considered voting rights the folly of young people. It wasn’t until the TEACHERS of the Selma area refused to accept second-class status and joined the movement that African American adults across the state not only took the issue seriously, but were mobilized to take action. This led to Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettis Bridge and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Some people, like Congressman John Lewis, had their skulls bashed in so that the rest of us may live up to the promise of America.<\/p>\n

Watch http:\/\/amzn.to\/pSXLZQ<\/a> and learn how fearless college students changed America, jeopardizing their degrees and risking their lives. Buy the DVD<\/a> and show it everybody you know.<\/p>\n

Apartheid began to unravel in South Africa when thousands of students walked out of school because they were being miseducated (taught Afrikans instead of English). Some children were killed but Apartheid ended less than twenty years later. When countless American urban schools are entirely segregated and the students are fed a steady diet of test-prep, it may be time to end Apartheid education in this country as well.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I didn’t give much thought to Saturday’s March on Washington because progressive educators can’t normally organize a softball game, but I plan on being there Saturday. I also signed-on as an endorser.<\/p>\n

I will travel cross-country because of the unequivocal DEMANDS listed at http:\/\/www.saveourschoolsmarch.org\/about\/guiding-principles\/ It is so refreshing to see educators start demanding what is right, not looking for compromises when none are warranted, ala Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

If children cannot count on each and every one of their educators to stand between them and the madness, who can they count on?<\/p>\n

Okily Dokily,<\/p>\n

Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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