Call to Adopt an American Declaration and Education Bill of Rights
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...A Declaration of Independence for American Education
Whereas the Institution of American Education has devolved into a factory-farm, limited to the strict pursuit of short answer learning, and
Whereas this model has denied students and teachers the basic rights of play, art, and the most basic intellectual freedom to teach and learn in freedom, and
Whereas Art, manifest in all of its forms, is recognized for its transforming, transcendent, and mind-opening agency in human exchange, is a universal element of human life, bound inherently with the desire to play and invent, and
Whereas Play is the biological heritage of learning that keeps us childlike, sensitized, creative, and primed to learn; a principle upon which human nature has evolved its higher capacity for mental health, reason, respect, compromise, and survival, and
Whereas these natural domains foster the human, expressive, and resilient qualities of thinking needed for a productive life and maintenance of a healthy democracy,
And whereas we are witness to the growing erosion of, and bias against, Play and Art in the ongoing academic takeover of our schools,
We hereby declare Art and Play to be inalienable Birthrights of Learning, subject to protections guaranteed Americans under the United States Constitution and The Bill of Rights....
http://www.change.org/petitions/call-to-adopt-an-american-declaration-and-education-bill-of-rights#
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The education "reform" movement has been turning our schools from places of learning, thinking and fun into standardized testing factories.
