Have you been thinking about hosting a screening of Backpack?
We’re making it easy for you by offering a substantial discount if you book by August 31st!
For this month only, a screening where you don’t charge admission is $550 (plus shipping) or, if you do charge for entry, it’s $400 (plus 50% of the profits that you earn from ticket sales.)
Backpack explores the impact of market-based education reforms (like charter schools, vouchers, and testing) on public schools and the most vulnerable students who rely on them.
This discounted rate is a fantastic opportunity to host a screening at the start of the school year — and to kickstart discussions about education in advance of the all-important November elections!
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Teachers parents, voters, and other attendees all had strong responses to Backpack, saying that the film’s message made them feel motivated and ready to fight for public education.
Thank you to our hosts in Texas this summer, and to everyone who came out to see the film!
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Please send more information. I’d like to apply for funding at my campus in order to show it to some classes. I’ll be forwarding this to our librarian.
Ron Zigler
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
Penn State Abington
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Google the film and/or producers.
Stone Lantern Films.
Great film. Focus on Philly and destruction of public schools.
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“City Year is Proud to Partner with Success Academy”, City Year’s board co-chair is Jonathan Lavine, who is a co-partner in Bain Capital. Last year, Huffpo described Bain
Capital as spending big on charter schools. Not surprisingly, Jonathan Lavine is on the corporate-funded Center for American Progress board.
Yes, Trump/DeVos are horrible. And, America deserves better than a union leader cozying up to a Presidential campaign run by people associated with CAP and who volunteered to be its attack dog. In its March report, the “liberal” CAP recommended states should authorize charter schools.
Progressive candidates who get endorsements from NPE, from organizations like Ohio’s Partners for Public Education, and all of the other grass roots groups like those who won against Bill Gates’ court choices and who won on Issue 2 in Massachusetts will be my heroes.
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I hope producers are getting this email out to ALL US colleges, esp teacher ed departments. I went to a screening of an excellent film 7 or 8 years ago about the pointless, damaging pressure being placed on students w testing and homework. Cannot remember the name of the film, but I’ll never forget one of the quotes…that high school was no longer preparation for college but preparation for the college application process. Montclair State University (NJ) sponsored the film.
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Matt Damon sends his own children to private schools. He is a hypocrite, for opposing permitting other parents to have any choice at all. Shame on him. See
https://www.newsweek.com/should-matt-damon-send-his-kids-private-school-668215
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Matt Damon is not a hypocrite. He pays tuition for his children. He doesn’t ask for the government to pay the tuition. He doesn’t rob public schools. He pays more taxes than you.
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Many people pay more taxes than I do. But if Matt Damon thinks that public schools are so great, why doesn’t he send his own children to them?
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He knows that all good citizens pay for public schools whether or not they use them, even if their children are grown, even if they don’t have children. No one is required to send their children to public school (remember Pierce Decision 1925) but everyone pays for them.
No reason to steal their funding to pay for private schools. It is not a citizens’ obligation to pay for children to go to a Yeshiva or madrassa or a private school of any kind.
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That is a non-answer. Regardless of who pays for the public schools, it still does explain why he does not send his own children to the schools that he is championing.
Many politicians and celebrities who are right out in front, carrying the banners for public schools, and fighting any possibility for parents to be given the financial aid necessary to have even limited choices for their children, continue to send their own children to private schools.
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Charles, with all due respect, you are a very stupid man. Celebrities have a well grounded fear of kidnapping. But since you have never had a child, how would you know?
No one is obligated to send their child to a punlic school. They are obligated to pay for public schools.
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Would a Michigan minister/state education official describe Charles as having a sinful soul for coveting Matt Damon’s wealth?
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I installed security/video systems at military bases in Iraq/Afghanistan. I am well-aware of the legitimate security concerns faced by the children of the wealthy. (The fact that I am not wealthy, and have no children, is irrelevant).
Public school systems are going to spending an estimated $3 Billion on security hardware, see
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/schools-are-spending-billions-high-tech-security-are-students-any-n875611
I wish we lived in a safer society, and this kind of spending could go towards teacher salaries, and education. God help us.
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Celebrities worry about kidnapping. This is not relevant to school shootings and our failure to limit access to deadly weapons.
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Hi Charles:
Who is the most hypocrite regarding forcing people’s children to go through COMMON CORE plus WITHOUT CERTIFIED and EXPERIENCED teachers while promoting their own children to learn in a traditional education system WITHOUT COMPUTER SCREEN?
Isn’t The Gates family and his followers, supporters, friends…Back2basic
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Why don’t Republicans call out DeVos for turning her back on Old Glory? The DeVos’ yacht that attempted an escape, flies the Cayman island flag to avoid about $2 mil. in taxes. Americans are forced to cover the cheapskates’ tab. DeVoses can’t be counted as Americans since they’re unwilling to pay their fair share and as a result, their possessions, like the yacht, aren’t allowed to fly the stars and stripes.
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