Good Afternoon
My name is Donald Jackson and I live at 79 Treacy AVE Newark NJ 071 08 and my telephone
number is 973-824-0365.
I am one of the students who organized the walkout April 27th 2010 in the city of
Newark. For the record, no teacher, principal, union leader, school official, board
member, or politician came to any of us students and said we should walkout. You can
tell the governor that he is mistaken. We students chose to walkout. We the students
walked out to protest the governor and this senate's decision to slice and dice millions of
dollars from our urban school districts. We the students also walked out to protest the
decision to get rid of thousands of employees in Newark that the dear superintendent
plans to do. We walked out to protest the social workers and other programs that the
governor and the superintendent will cut: at least they think they will cut them.
As a grandson and cousin of teachers in the state of New Jersey, I find it disturbing that
the governor and people across this sate think teachers are useless. For the past 5 months
I have heard that teachers do nothing but babysit. Some have gone as far as saying that
teachers do no work and are a waste of money. Well, if you think teachers are the
problem and they do nothing, you are sadly mistaken. Teachers dedicate all of their time
to teaching. My grandmother doesn't come in and read the paper all day. She comes in
with dedication with her saying reach all teach all.
Alii have heard from the governor is bashing teachers. This governor needs to get his act
together and stop blaming hard working people for the flats of the state.
Chris Christi claims the Newark is a failure model of education and is an embarrassment
to the state. Well I would like to add that Newark public schools is run by the sate of New
Jersey and has been for the past 15 years and has done worse than before the state came
in. the teachers who ran the classrooms before the state took over seemed to do the job
then, why cant they do it now. The problems in Newark are solely the fault of the State of
New Jersey.
There may be some teachers who don't do the right thing across the state, but not all of the
teachers are bad. The system is the bad thing here and every one trying to get over instead
of keeping the importance at hand and that's educating all of our students throughout the
state of New Jersey.
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I demand
that the governor meet with parents and students in the city of Newark to
explain why he is targeting our schools and why did he bash the city of newark.
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