United Opt Out’s Activist Handbook

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In Chapter 9 (Where Do We Go From Here), Busted Pencil’s own Tim Slekar discusses the future of the opt out movement.  The emphasis here is that opting out is a movement, not an end on one side of an argument.

In the chapter, Tim uses some of his most powerful blog posts from the past to lay out the vision of opt out.  Tim pushes us to look deeply at issues of 1) poverty, 2) the purpose of public education, 3) testing, 4) standards, 5) assessment, 6) teacher education, and 7) leadership within the profession.
Be prepared.  This is an an unfiltered, bold, and sometimes scathing analysis of what has been done to public schools in America and with an equally powerful vision of where opt out and the movement to save American public schools must go.

United Opt Out’s Activist Handbook is a must read to prepare for the 2015-2016 school year. There’s something a bit unique about our book. It’s a brutally honest story about individuals who came together to figure out how to tear down the massive corporate regime that was harming children and our public schools. We had no funding. We had no groups backing us. Yet, we did it – with successes and failures – and still moving forward. It truly is a handbook for the revolution – full of strategies you can use immediately. We’ve never compromised and we’ve never negotiated with children’s lives. UOO is not a resistance movement – it’s a revolution.