Fwd: [LiteracyForAll] Resistance

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

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> From: Susan Ohanian <susano@gmavt.net>
> Date: Thu Aug 24, 2006  9:21:03 AM US/Pacific
> To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [LiteracyForAll] Resistance
> Reply-To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
>
> I'm glad to see Torri's post about organizing for--and taking risks
> for--Resistance.
>
> I naively thought that if I could get half a million teachers to
> subscribe to my website, the media would have to pay attention to 
> voices
> of dissent.
>
> Sigh.
>
> I won't admit how far from that figure I am, though I will say 
> reporters
> do subscribe. Last week, within half an hour after I posted something, 
> a
> NY Times reporter contacted me, asking how she could get in touch with 
> a
> teacher.
>
> I get a lot of mail from desprate parents and grandparents whose
> children are being terrorized and otherwise beaten up by the schools.
> Many days I am just frozen by all this. . . just feel I can't move for
> the heavy gloom.
>
> Then a note like Torri's reminds me that we must stop moaning and DO
> something.
>
> So here it is, one  positive thing you can do today, and it will cost
> only $16. Subscribe to /Substance/. It is the only newspaper of the
> resistance out there. Yes, it is primarily concerned with Chicago, but
> there is a national section, and if we had more revenue, the national
> section would grow. Besides that, what happens in Chicago has a
> curious/frightening way of repeating itself across the country.
> Truth in advertising: I'm the National Resistance editor.
>
> I believe that we all owe George Schmidt a whole lot more than $16 a
> year because he put his job and family security on the line to expose
> how rotten the standardized tests were (and are). He not only lost his
> teaching job, he had to pay out enormous legal bills to defend himself
> when the Chicago City schools sued him for $1.4 million. George lost 
> his
> job and was blackballed from employment in the entire Chicago metro 
> area.
>
> If we could find even 10,000 subscribers for Substance, we could make a
> difference.
> Substance
> 5132 Berteau Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60641-1440
>
> If you're already a subscriber, buy a subscription for  the school
> library, town library, the faculy room..  But a subscription for your
> favorite Standardisto, corporate politico operate, or whomever.
>
> I just talked to George and Sharon and Josh (soon-to-be 2). Sam,
> just-turned 5, wouldn't talk  because he's in deep contemplation about
> what it is in the heavens that caused him to break  his arm yesterday.
>
> Susan
>
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