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Bronx Students Release 10-Point List of Demands to Reform NY Public Education
- We demand free quality education as a right guaranteed by the US Constitution.
- We demand the dismantling of Bloomberg’s Panel for Educational Policy. We demand a new 13 member community board to run our public schools (comprised of parents, educators, education experts, community members, and a minimum of 5 student representatives).
- We demand quality instruction. Teachers should ethnically, culturally, and racially reflect the student body. We demand experienced teachers who have a history of teaching students well. Teachertraining should be intensive and include an apprenticeship with master teachers as well as experiences with the communities where the school is located.
- We demand stronger extra-curricular activities to help stimulate and spark interest in students. Students should have options, opportunities, and choice in their education.
- We demand a healthy, safe environment that does not expect our failure or anticipate our criminality. We demand a school culture that acknowledges our humanity (free of metal detectors, untrained and underpaid security guards, and abusive tactics).
- We demand that all NYC public school communities foster structured and programmatic community building so that students, teachers, and staff learn in an environment that is respectful and safe for all.
- We demand small classes. Class sizes should be humane and productive. We demand that the student to teacher ratio for a mainstream classroom should be no more than 15:1.
- We demand student assessments and evaluations that reflect the variety of ways that we learn and think (portfolio assessments, thesis defenses, anecdotal evaluations, written exams). Student success should not depend solely on high stakes testing.
- We demand a stop to the attack on our schools. If a school is deemed “failing”, we demand a team of qualified and diverse experts to assess how such schools can improve and the resources to improve them.
- We demand fiscal equity for NYC public schools: as stated in the Education Budget and Reform Act of 2007 by the NYS Legislature, NYC public schools have been inadequately and inequitably funded. We demand the legislatively mandated $7 billion dollars in increased annual state education aid to be delivered to our schools now!
yesterday’s rally at union square.
made me proud of humans/nyc/americans… made me sad for the people who chose to go to work/watch tv/eat dog shit or whatever else was so fucking important….
wake up you stupid fucking slaves.
marching past people shopping on mayday…. wake the fuck up
LOVE is the ultimate resistance against all oppressive systems of control. they want us to remain apathetic and complacent.
FUCK that.
let’s fall in love.
I read anyon and bowles and all i got was this lousy free write
In response to Jean Anyon (on Social Class and School Knowledge) and Samuel Bowles (Unequal Education and The Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor)
When training workers:
Teach them none of their own history (no history of the working class). Do not teach them about their classes’ situation of conflict with powerful business and political groups, its “long history of dissent and struggle for economic dignity.” Teach a people that their own interests and values are of little worth in the market system and should not be taught or respected.
can societal inequalities be overcome by curriculum and teaching methods?
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Can societal inequalities be overcome by curriculum and teaching practices?
In part. The same way that the school system can function like other institutional powers to reproduce the power dynamics of larger society, it can also be ONE PART of civil resistance and re-education. It cannot do it alone. There needs to be change enacted through the media, the religious institutions, from fiscal and social policy makers and through other avenues as well. The social inequalities that result in poor student performance are not going to change just by giving students from these groups surface solutions like dual-language programs, social promotion, and equal opportunity, for example.
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