Now that we have seen this video where @Hillsdale prez Larry Arnn denigrates and demeans teachers, professors, and universities while @GovBillLee says nothing other than heaping praise on his ed advisor Larry, here are some action steps!
If you are in the #Knoxville area, show up today at 11:00 am today at Edgewood Park to stand up for teachers!
Call your State Rep and State Senator and get on record whether or not they support @Hillsdale Larry Arnn’s comments and if they support Lee’s plan for 50-100 Hillsdale charter schools. When you get your answer, post it on social media and ask people to share it!
Then get 10-20 of your friends to do the same! After that, email/call @GovBillLee and let him know what you think of him allowing his education advisor to denigrate his own wife and all TN teachers/professors/universities. Tell him you don’t want @Hillsdale charters in TN.
Tell him that we don’t need a school who’s prez says “education destroys generations of people” having anything to do with education in TN.
Find candidates in your town who will say no to charters, including Hillsdale, and donate and knock doors for them. And then vote like your life depends on it! And take 5 friends to vote!
In case you haven’t seen it… newschannel5.com/news/newschann…
As one friend suggested, universities need to speak out against this too, she will be contacting Vanderbilt.
🚨Update! Call your BOE members & your Superintendents, ask them if they plan to make a statement condemning @Hillsdale Larry Arnn and @GovBillLee statements (and complicity) denigrating and demeaning teachers. If they don’t call it out, they are allowing an attack on teachers.
As we are heading into the July 4 weekend if you call your representatives now, you will leave a message and ask them to call back, you can wait until after holiday to make those calls and you have a better opportunity to get them or their legislative assistants in the office.
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