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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Your problem is that you don't have *ANYTHING* to base "your voice and your vote" on - or for that matter, your opinion that "it is not working" and "has had no impact" - other than some extreme disinformation and lies coming in the form of right wing talking points being spread as a funded, organized disinformation astroturf campaign by the Heartland Institute and others which have been repeated here ad nauseam, despite having been shown to have no data, substance or analysis behind them and which have been disproven over and over again. [/quote]

I am a teacher.  I have 27 years of experience.  I teach students who are "at risk".  I talk to educators A LOT.  I have a child who went through public schools.  I have been called in for meetings where they were afraid he would not pass the standardized tests (and been told he needed psychiatric intervention which was a huge crock).  I have been forced to do things too numerous to recount here.  If my child were still in school, I would be opting out of the tests.  I think my vote is based on enough.  I don't even know who the Heartland Institute is.  I do know that education cannot be controlled from above and I do know that the only way to make great schools is to give the schools a lot of control.  I don't need someone else's data to tell me what I experience every day.  And I am pretty liberal.  I would join a "real union" if there were one available and if such an organization were politically active.  [/quote]

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