I am a parent and strong education advocate in the Fremont Unified School District (Fremont, CA). I occasionally blog on The Daily Kos; as well as some other local blogs for children and education. I am writing today as a representative of Save Our Schools March (www.saveourschoolsmarch.org ) to ask you on Monday, February 14 to write something about why you love education and possibly include a link to our march and rally in DC this July.
The message we want to get out to as many people on Valentine’s Day is that everyone who cares about young people also cares about our schools. Our best schools nurture our children; make them feel safe and able to take the risks they need to in order to learn. But our schools are in danger of becoming even more narrowly focused on test preparation; while class sizes rise and teachers are blamed for the ravages poverty inflicts on their students.
We are responding. We love our schools. We declare Valentine’s Day, 2011, to be I Love Public Education Blog Day. On this day we will write our hearts out, about why it is that public education is so important to us, our children, and our democratic society. If you or your readers will join us and tell why you love public education too, send your comments and posts to saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com.
Writing will be displayed at the www.SaveOurSchoolsmarch.org website, and will be tweeted with the hashtag #LovePublicEd. We offer the march and events of July 28 to 31st in Washington, DC, as a focal point for this movement, and we ask participants to link to this event, so we can build momentum for our efforts. If your readers wish to repeat this post on their own blog, we would love it. We would love if you could use our graphic to indicate that this is part of our campaign.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com .
Hello, I previously contacted you regarding the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action. The more awareness we can bring to the situation, the better off we will all be! I would like to encourage you to join our movement by posting to your blog. Our national grassroots movement is asking the “real” ed reform bloggers to join with us so that we can all speak with ONE VOICE all across the country during the month of March. You are one of them! And I am so grateful.
Our theme for March is “Waking the Sleeping Giant”, which was inspired by the events in Wisconsin and other places around the country. The public is finally beginning to wake up to what’s been happening for the last few years – we’re seeing evidence of this not only in Wisconsin but in places such as Seattle and Rochester.
We are asking you to keep your readers informed by continuing to mention our July 30 march in D.C. and by providing a link to our website www.saveourschoolsmarch.org in one or more of your posts during the month of March.
If you would like to write a guest post for our website, send your post or your comments to saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com. Or if you would like to endorse our march, let us know and we will list your blog and url on our website.
Posts can also be tweeted with the hashtag #WakingGiant. We offer the March and events of July 28 to 31st in Washington, D.C. as the focal point for this movement, and we ask participants to link to this event, so that we can build momentum for our efforts. We offer your choice of graphics to go along with our theme “Waking the Sleeping Giant.” I can e-mail them to you if you like. We encourage you to use one or more of the graphics to indicate that our organization is sponsoring the march.
Thank you for your help, Gail Edwards-Bryan Parent in Fremont CA www.saveourschoolsmarch.org Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
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I am a parent and strong education advocate in the Fremont Unified School District (Fremont, CA). I occasionally blog on The Daily Kos; as well as some other local blogs for children and education. I am writing today as a representative of Save Our Schools March (www.saveourschoolsmarch.org ) to ask you on Monday, February 14 to write something about why you love education and possibly include a link to our march and rally in DC this July.
The message we want to get out to as many people on Valentine’s Day is that everyone who cares about young people also cares about our schools. Our best schools nurture our children; make them feel safe and able to take the risks they need to in order to learn. But our schools are in danger of becoming even more narrowly focused on test preparation; while class sizes rise and teachers are blamed for the ravages poverty inflicts on their students.
We are responding. We love our schools. We declare Valentine’s Day, 2011, to be I Love Public Education Blog Day. On this day we will write our hearts out, about why it is that public education is so important to us, our children, and our democratic society. If you or your readers will join us and tell why you love public education too, send your comments and posts to saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com.
Writing will be displayed at the www.SaveOurSchoolsmarch.org website, and will be tweeted with the hashtag #LovePublicEd. We offer the march and events of July 28 to 31st in Washington, DC, as a focal point for this movement, and we ask participants to link to this event, so we can build momentum for our efforts. If your readers wish to repeat this post on their own blog, we would love it. We would love if you could use our graphic to indicate that this is part of our campaign.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com .
Hello,
I previously contacted you regarding the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action. The more awareness we can bring to the situation, the better off we will all be! I would like to encourage you to join our movement by posting to your blog.
Our national grassroots movement is asking the “real” ed reform bloggers to join with us so that we can all speak with ONE VOICE all across the country during the month of March. You are one of them! And I am so grateful.
Our theme for March is “Waking the Sleeping Giant”, which was inspired by the events in Wisconsin and other places around the country. The public is finally beginning to wake up to what’s been happening for the last few years – we’re seeing evidence of this not only in Wisconsin but in places such as Seattle and Rochester.
We are asking you to keep your readers informed by continuing to mention our July 30 march in D.C. and by providing a link to our website www.saveourschoolsmarch.org in one or more of your posts during the month of March.
If you would like to write a guest post for our website, send your post or your comments to saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com. Or if you would like to endorse our march, let us know and we will list your blog and url on our website.
Posts can also be tweeted with the hashtag #WakingGiant. We offer the March and events of July 28 to 31st in Washington, D.C. as the focal point for this movement, and we ask participants
to link to this event, so that we can build momentum for our efforts. We offer your choice of graphics to go along with our theme “Waking the Sleeping Giant.” I can e-mail them to you if you like. We encourage you to use one or more of the graphics to indicate that our organization is sponsoring the march.
Thank you for your help,
Gail Edwards-Bryan
Parent in Fremont CA
www.saveourschoolsmarch.org
Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
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