Occupy the Education System: Students, Teachers and Parents Find New Spirit and Challenge

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http://www.alternet.org/story/153028/occupy_the_education_system%3A_students%2C_teachers_and_parents_find_new_spirit_and_challenge_the_attack_on_public_schools/

Occupy the Education System: Students, Teachers and Parents Find New Spirit and Challenge the Attack on Public Schools

''I work hard, but my grades don't matter. But I have a voice and I will be heard!”

Jordan is 13, and she's speaking to a crowd of mostly adults, sitting on the granite steps of the New York City Department of Education at Tweed Hall. Or rather, she is speaking through them, as her words echo through the people's mic used at Occupy Wall Street just few blocks south from where she's speaking.

Tonight the steps of the DOE have been occupied and are packed with teachers, students, parents, and supporters holding a general assembly on the state of public education in New York.

Jordan was far from the only student to speak. A young girl holding up one end of a sign that read “Nothing about us, without us, is for us!” declared “I am angry! I am PISSED! And I want JUSTICE!” in ringing tones, and Devan, a poet, read a poem over the people's mic.

[grntuscarora]

1. "Nothing about us, without us, is for us!"

awesome sign the little girl was holding.