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NM PED has made learning and teaching frustrating, stressful, and almost impossible under new policies and mandates. These mandates are not designed to educate our kids and help lead them into promising, healthful, or happy futures--they are designed to rank and pigeonhole our kids and replace their effective teachers with poorly trained and temporary "teaching corps members."
It is our mission to begin to educate the parents, teachers, and community leaders about the myths and propaganda being spread by the state, as well as the realities and how to put an end to the abusive measures that are currently harming our kids and destroying public education.
Calling, emailing, tweeting, and texting elected representatives is a good idea, and that must continue for the long term. However, the quickest, loudest, and most disruptive action a parent of public schools can take to project his or her voice is simple boycott of the product that is holding all of this in place: the state testing program (the Standards-Based Assessment and the end-of-course exam, or alternative).
It happened in New York State, with an aggressive education chief and punishing restrictions. New Mexico is lucky--we have fewer punitive measures against us, and we have the freedom to refuse for our kids. In New York, students had to take that initiative on their own, which is just wrong. But, they did. And they are currently in the process of ousting several harmful policies and people from their state.
New Mexico's education leaders are even more vicious. Hanna Skandera has motivations that are based on money, agenda, and corporate wishes. She was Jeb Bush's deputy secretary of education while he was governor, at the time that Florida saw their public schools and children suffer under scandalous reforms. In other words, Hanna Skandera isn't here to help our kids. She's here to help her bosses.
Join us as we take back our state's public department and work toward putting people in those seats who care about our kids and the future of our state. Boycott these dangerous tools. REFUSE THE TESTS!
Thank you for helping us save education in our state. We plan to be part of the domino effect that will soon bring down the monstrosity that Race to the Top and corporate education reform has created.
It is our mission to begin to educate the parents, teachers, and community leaders about the myths and propaganda being spread by the state, as well as the realities and how to put an end to the abusive measures that are currently harming our kids and destroying public education.
Calling, emailing, tweeting, and texting elected representatives is a good idea, and that must continue for the long term. However, the quickest, loudest, and most disruptive action a parent of public schools can take to project his or her voice is simple boycott of the product that is holding all of this in place: the state testing program (the Standards-Based Assessment and the end-of-course exam, or alternative).
It happened in New York State, with an aggressive education chief and punishing restrictions. New Mexico is lucky--we have fewer punitive measures against us, and we have the freedom to refuse for our kids. In New York, students had to take that initiative on their own, which is just wrong. But, they did. And they are currently in the process of ousting several harmful policies and people from their state.
New Mexico's education leaders are even more vicious. Hanna Skandera has motivations that are based on money, agenda, and corporate wishes. She was Jeb Bush's deputy secretary of education while he was governor, at the time that Florida saw their public schools and children suffer under scandalous reforms. In other words, Hanna Skandera isn't here to help our kids. She's here to help her bosses.
Join us as we take back our state's public department and work toward putting people in those seats who care about our kids and the future of our state. Boycott these dangerous tools. REFUSE THE TESTS!
Thank you for helping us save education in our state. We plan to be part of the domino effect that will soon bring down the monstrosity that Race to the Top and corporate education reform has created.