The educational revolt

International The great blow to the exams standardized in America The educational revolt For: Carlos Damian June 2, 2013 The entrepreneurial plan is going to the low in The States schools Mexico. - The great American family regaling this victory in Seattle to annul the standardized exams duty, and this is part of a growing revolt in several points of the American country, and this situation is reflected from Texas until Illinois going through New York, and altogether against the educational reform that seeks to employ the exams as a magic recipe to evaluate students, teachers and schools with a corporative plan that for some is part of the effort to break the unions and to privatize what some call "the market of the public education". It is what thinks the writer David Brooks about the situation in The States about the privatization of the educational reform, the efforts that are made to impose it, trying to bursting to the unions, to decrease the quality of the education for the marginal populations: for the black culture, the Mexican culture, and the Asian migrants, and in this educational context to destine them so that they will be cannon meat in the American Union, in such a way that they could not surpass their marginal culture situation, (not Wasp). The corporative scheme in the one which is contextualize this unilateral educational reform is what is designated "the market of the public education", denying the right to forming unions to handle to the teachers as "occupational slaves" and they could be manipulated as the state and the entrepreneurs wish, without no condition to follow the entrepreneurial and neoliberal line. Some groups of educational - occupational experts, in fact say that it has been begun with these actions of the social activists of part of the teachers, the "revolution" in the public education in the country. "It is always difficult to say exactly when it begins a revolution. We don’t expert, but until where we may we’ll seeing that an is taking shape give the American public education", it was the thought written in the magazine 'The Atlantic', on the part of John Tierney (JT), a policy’s teacher that during 25 years was master of High School, after 25 years in the Boston College was teaching in this great city of his loves. Strong schools, strong neighborhoods Asserting this truth, as evidence indicates JT the growing number of teachers that is refusing to apply standardized exams, family parents that opt for drawing to their children from the school the tests day and the students’ boycott that are revolted to that duty of the State. In this dissent line has to be increasingly political and legislating expressing publicly their doubts about the exams and other initiatives of the educational reform. Have to be increasingly indicative and statistics of the fact that the reforms based on the teachers and schools evaluation by standardized examination something which implies an entrepreneurial plan impelled during the past decade by the owners of the country (1 percent), and we can mention to multimillionaire as: Bill Gates (Microsoft), Marck Zuckerberg (Facebook), Michael Bloomberg (mayor of NY), and the family Walton (Walmart), between other persons that support with decision these schools with entrepreneurial plan. They have been these schools impelled by governments as that of George Bush Junior, and the current government of Barack Obama, therefore face a great challenge in each corner of the states of the American Union, to be despised by their entrepreneurial plan, and imposed to blood and fire by the State and the entrepreneurial wizards that with their wand magic water its magic water magic accompanied of million to dollars trying annex and to wash the brain of hundreds of teachers and family parents, so that accept this educational -occupational magic formulation. In January, teachers of the Garfield High School in Seattle decided not to apply the examination known cone "measuring of academic progress" (MAP), declaring that was a loss of time and of funds that they could be better personnel for others end of academic support, in addition to that was a unjust way to evaluate to teachers. They were threatened with be discontinued by the scholastic authorities of the city, but began to receive support from teachers not only from this city but from all the country. Meanwhile, hundred of teachers, students and parents of other schools in the city began to participate in the boycott of the exams (High School six were added to this dissent). Protect our children now After months of struggle, the last week the authorities decided to relinquish and the schools superintendent of the city Jose Banda declared that MAP now they are "optional", and that those that decide not to use must them seek an alternative form to evaluate ace the students. Jesse Hagopian (JH), teacher of history and union representative in the Garfield High School, said that are perceived as part of "movements countrywide against the standardized exams, from parents that is refusal to the fact that their children would take the exams until the association of school directors of school of the New York State asserting that already enough with these tests". In an interview that appeared in television, 'Democracy Now', JH asserted that this victory, since of all unanimous way the faculty of their school voted against formalizing the examination has a "real crisis for these promoters of a corporative reform (… ) because all their system depends about (…) to reduce the teaching and the learning to an alone qualification, that they can use to close schools, as are seeing it as a fact in Chicago and Philadelphia, to demote the education, to extract earnings of that and to privatize our schools, returning them schools 'charter'." The teacher JH continues saying, believing that it is therefore that so many teacher and family parents in the country are celebrating this victory. These groups of teachers that are opposed as JH, they assert that they are not against the teachers and schools evaluation, in fact their colleagues have elaborated alternative that offer to measure all type of capacities that are not registered by the standardized exams. "We are against evaluations that they are not culturally relevant, not aligned with our curriculum, and that they do not promote the type of capacities that we believe are necessary in the world today". However it more surprising has been the parents movement, teachers and students in Texas, where the state legislature, that obligated by the popular pressure, approved around the end of April measured to reduce the number and use of the exams standardized in the state. This happened in the cradle of the educational reform that it has been promoted to national scale. This revolution began with a group of eight family mothers in Austin and Houston, to who all discarded by be "beginning" in the policy. But their fury against the state mandates that were submitting to their children increasingly to standardized exams and the effects that this had on the teaching impelled an organization that finally "overwhelmed to the entrepreneurial and political forces that they had converted to Texas into the experimental capital of the standardized exams". (La Jornada, Fracasa esquema empresarial, p. 2, June 1, 2013).