The public schools of Buena Vista are closed. The teachers offered to work for free, but they were rebuffed. Some have filed for unemployment. The children are out of school, and no one knows when school will open again. Or if it will.
Joy Resnovits is following this story on Huffington Post.
Buena Vista is a town that got left behind when the American auto industry collapsed.
As more rust belt towns die, the question will come up again and again. Can we stop educating children when localities get washed away by economic recessions and depressions?
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Rebuffed? The district couldn’t legally have done that. This is definitely a sad situation, but I think it’s a stretch to turn this into an anti-teacher argument.
By “done that” I meant allowed them to work for free.
The teachers can get together and just reach and teach the kids while collecting unemployment. The kids need us now more than ever! And teachers need this kind of positive actions despite the DEFORMERS.
We must refuse to be paralyzed by a bunch of bullies. When congress had a meeting about school bullying, I laughed.
State legislatures. Where’s the Justice Dept and OCR? Feds are failing AZ too, but not at this level. An educator needs to play golf with Obama.
There is a real lawsuit here. Children by law are to be in school. Want a big settlement just continue. Where are the so called civil rights groups and such? Where are the lawyers. Where is the ACLU? These are civil and human rights. I am the Director of Policy for CORE-CA and this is illegal. The state has to keep the school open legally Obama and absorb the cost as here in California. If a school goes bankrupt or into insolvency the state takes it over and runs it until the loan is paid off. Ask Compton and now Inglewood. Call Tom Torlakson, Superintendent of Schools for California. Does this state have in its constitution the equal education for all students. If it does more law breaking. This cannot be allowed. By the way this is a part of Obama and Duncan’s plan for privatization and corporatization. Was it not posted today that Obama declared National Charter Schools Week the same Week as National Teachers Week? What do you think that means in messaging? Take a guess.
Obama is the “Privatizer in Chief.”
The state can not super cede the Federal Mandates which have been written for the protection and education of children. A class action lawsuit could be initiated by any of the organizations mentioned by George Bruzzetti (every word of his comments, suggestions and questions should be examined and acted on by those directly impacted or any investigative reporters willing to stepup and expose the truth about what is happening to our country and others). If there are special education students in those schools and their IEP under IDEA, sec. 504 of their Civil Rights, so forth and so on, are not being carried out the children can be thrown into regression. This is once again the question of legal education child abuse!!!! Call or e-mail WrightsLaw, ACLU, any of the state and national organizations that are advocacy groups for children, PTA etc. children with learning disabilities, etc.
Is anyone noticing that this is a war against children and community? This is an all out invasion of our way of life without asking or telling the masses of the fate of their children’s futures? Has the handwriting been on the wall? YES!!! Has there been a failure to act by the national organizations and others who are supposedly the watchdogs of the children and families, our communities? YES!!!!
In looking to find the lyrics of Where Have All The Flowers Gone? by Pete Seeger (later changed to Where Have All The Children Gone) I found videos entitled Where Have All The Children Gone? from around the world. It was shocking because it speaks to communities which have shut down and begs the question of Where Have All The Children Gone? This is not in isolation but a well constructed global initiative and if by now people can’t see the handwriting on the wall they are blind. Even a blind person can see with their ear’s and a deaf person with their finger’s, but you have to be open to the information and out of denial. Connect the dots!!!!! This may be the biggest and most important test you will ever take as it is a life changer. For the design of plan for this country read Douglas D. Noble and the The Classroom Arsenal (or any of his books or articles) as it is all there spelled out more then twenty five years ago.
Donde esta Obama?