There have been so many people advocating for change within the education system. I have been witnessing a lot of the “gears” moving.
PACs are coming forward and holding rallies, and they are hosting budget information nights with tons of parents showing up. Also advocating for their right to be heard.
Organizations are making headway on the path to an equitable education through investigations or guidance manuals. It’s really quite a time to be paying attention to what is happening. Teacher associations are speaking up.
All eyes are on education!!
Social media has certainly been active. More people and organizations are blogging about budgets and EA cuts.
Here is one thing that is absolutely true.
All of these people and groups that are advocating and leading teams. They are getting really really good at what they are doing. They are expanding their comfort zones and becoming seasoned to be in the ring. They are becoming skilled at speech making, networking, organizing. They are like a fine wine. Just getting better and better, building on skills they already had.
You can’t put the squeezed toothpaste back into the tube.
They will be mentoring and inspiring people they aren’t even realizing, and more people will be following in their footsteps and feel braver to stand up because they are witnessing and having advocacy modelled to them. The connections they create are not just going to melt away come the summer.
The advocacy is just going to grow. More people will join the movement. It is going to get very very loud. The media is paying attention, as they should be.
Decisions about education are a reflection of who society cares about, and who they don’t.
The government is going to need to respond to people or risk losing the trust in its voters. They ran on an election promise of EAs in every classroom from K to grade 3. I hope they just don’t pull all the ones from high schools and just move them to the elementary schools and say, ta-da! Meanwhile, high schools will be falling apart.
Parents are collectively and individually becoming excellent advocates! This is an advocacy education train that is not going to stop. Full steam ahead!
ID: Text – Your enemies will open doors for you that they won’t even know that they’re opening…By the time they figure it out, they won’t have the power to close them.
