Altering and Amending the Forms of Government, Jefferson Style

IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Thomas Jefferson reminds us that people are willing to take a lot of crap from their own government, usually, and that it takes a great deal of abuse, and should, to motivate the abused to organize and fight back. Jefferson is quick to prolcaim that God gives all humans the right to fight back,by revolting against and overthrowing their own government, when sufficiently abused. He does not cite the source of this information. Throughout American history, Jefferson has been shown to be right in innumerable instances. Our history is overflowing with uprisings against our own government, bless our hearts. The more the merrier! Now is the time for all good public teachers, seeking to regain their sanity, and all public school administrators, seeking the same, to rise up and overthrow the tyranny of "No Child Left Behind"! Or, so it would seem. There is ubiquitous discontent within the education profession for George Bush's and Barack Obama's federal government meddling in our schools. Bush started it, Obama added to it. Uniform standards of learning for America's children, dictated by Washington D.C. . Endless repitious, standardized, testing. Big Brother, far away, judging whether students, teachers, and schools pass or fail, and rating them accordingly. People who have never spent a day teaching devising and implementing all this madness. The plan is for one hundred percent of America's schools and students to pass and succeed; in fact, over eighty percent fail, both the students, the teachers, and the schools. But now, in state after state, town after town, school after school, classroom after classroom, the revolt has begun. What we need is less test and punishment, and more assess and improve. And it looks ke that in order to change the system, as usual, extreme measrues on the part of we teh people will be required. Its only a matter of time until the barracdes go up, and the molotov cocktails start flying.All across the fruited plain, teachers and administrators and public school students, if the oppression continues, will be occupying school buildings, refusing to surrender control. Just say no to big government control of our local schools!