Thread by @citizenstewart

Open letter to people who are vying to be the arguable leader of the free world. I am watching you. There is nothing more important to me than the intellectual development of young people - especially those who have been marginalized by race, class, and perceived ability.

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I'm watching you, and listening to how serious you are about ensuring parents the rights and power to determine how, when, what, and where their children learn and grow.

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I'm listening to signs that you are bought and sold by the middle-class, college-educated, public employees in the education establishment more than the parents who are desperate for their children to have better learning opportunities.

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I'm listening for how serious you take the fact that education requires effective instruction, evidence-proven pedagogy, research-inform practice, and many in-classroom factors; every bit as much as external factors.

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I'm listening for your plan to ensure every American classroom has the best prepared, best supported, best evaluated, and best empowered educator before children who today are suffer the worst instruction, the worst curriculum, and the lowest expectations.

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I'm an education voter. Development of the minds of American kids isn't one issue of many to me. It's basic to everything I care about. Many voters will be scared into voting for you because you are a lesser devil. Not me.

Do The Right Thing by our kids, or kick rocks fool.