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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Peggy Robertson opened the OPT OUT CONFERENCE with six minutes of an overview of where we are and what is next | Reclaim Reform

Peggy Robertson opened the OPT OUT CONFERENCE with six minutes of an overview of where we are and what is next | Reclaim Reform:
Peggy Robertson opened the OPT OUT CONFERENCE with six minutes of an overview of where we are and what is next



 United Opt Out National Conference: Transcending Resistance, Igniting Revolution spoke the reality of the corporate education reform and its primary purpose of stealing public education tax dollars for private profit.Politicians from both political parties support and spread the propaganda and the lying euphemistic jargon in exchange for campaign contributions and other forms of recently legalized corruption. As parents, teachers and neighbors, our children and their futures are of more concern us. When our children learn and flourish, they and the nation flourish rather than merely enriching a few multinational corporations and the hedge fund/venture fund managers who feed them.

Peggy Robertson, whose Peg With Pen blog has helped ignite the entire Opt Out movement, is one of the founders of UOO. She opened the conference with 6 MINUTES of essential information. View the beginning or the entire YouTube video HERE.
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EXCERPTS: And we don’t negotiate with children’s lives in order to get-along and get-a-little…
Our goal has been to tear down the test-and-punish system. We must…
We should celebrate our success. We have made Opt Out mainstream…
Under ESSA, the Every Student Succeeds Act, there will be more testing than ever before…
And ultimately, many of the components of the ESSA will dismantle public education and the teaching profession…
Peggy Robertson opened the OPT OUT CONFERENCE with six minutes of an overview of where we are and what is next | Reclaim Reform: