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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Dear Teachers Rock performer: Parents United for Responsible Education

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Dear Teachers Rock performer:

As active parents, we thank you for your support for our public school teachers. We support them, too.
But you need to know that the agenda behind the “Teachers Rock” concert and the “Won’t Back Down” movie this concert promotes does not support teachers or our democratic public school system.
The WBD movie promotes a parent trigger law created by charter school operators and promoted by ALEC, which wrote the Stand Your Ground law. The real aim is to privatize public schools and get rid of union teachers.
The WBD movie is produced by the same company that produced the controversial documentary “Waiting for