Bartleby Project 2011: Do not take your state tests!

This is a call to all American students to write on your State Exams this school year: "I PREFER NOT TO TAKE YOUR TEST" ... and just sit there. No arguments. No violence. Just write that statement.
Bartleby Project 2011!!!!

Click to join the Bartleby Project if you are an American public school student: http://bartlebyproject.com (or you can follow it via facebook or twitter here, too)

Bartleby Project Background (John Taylor Gatto): http://www.oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinker%20news/invitation_to_an_ope...

Underground History of American Education: www.johntaylorgatto.­com/­chapters/­index.­htm

John Taylor Gatto: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/index.htm

"The Bartleby Project begins by inviting 60,000,000 American students, one by one, to peacefully refuse to take standardized tests or to participate in any preparation for these tests; it asks them to act because adults chained to institutions and corporations are unable to; because these tests pervert education, are disgracefully inaccurate, impose brutal stresses without reason, and actively encourage a class system which is poisoning the future of the nation." - John Taylor Gatto

Deschooling Society (Illich): http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/intro.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• weapons of mass instruction
• john taylor gatto
• bartleby project
• state testing
• standardized
• school

[DeschoolingSociety]

@ccsmotc That's just another threat the schools use. They use the prizes and food as "carrots" and threats of not getting a diploma, etc as the "stick". It's all a lie. You can't legally be forced to take these tests. But the schools don't want you to know that you can opt out. That's why they say stuff like that. How can they require that you take these tests for a diploma when absolutely NOBODY asks about them later in life? These tests are meaningless.

[journeytoyesterday]

This is so true!!  CAPTs are tomorrow, and this totally goes along with my idea to boycott them! XD

[DeschoolingSociety]

@journeytoyesterday -- Yes indeed! More power to you! Boycott and spread the word! Let's defeat testing!

[NothingAtAllXD]

@justicetrooper That's what it's referencing to. It's alluding to John Taylor Gatto's "Bartleby Project" that he wrote in his book "Weapons of Mass Instruction." Basically says students should not do state tests because they are the key element of the operation and gives all of the facts and documentation on why schools are controlled and not for our well-being.

[NothingAtAllXD]

@MrMrjimmeh4 Right. A 30 year school teacher that was the NY State Teacher of the Year for a year. If the school system makes you so smart and intellectual- why wouldn't you have better reading comprehension skills? Oh wait!

[MrMrjimmeh4]

@NothingAtAllXD I did read it, and i was enlightened... Enlightened on how much of a retard that guy is, John taylor gatto - the man who... no wait he's just another conspirator that takes up oxygen just like you. All i was saying is people should quit being bitches and stop whining and take the test...

[justicetrooper]

@NothingAtAllXD That's something that should be included in the video. :3 Without that sort of context it just appears that the author is paranoid about tests.

[NothingAtAllXD]

@journeytoyesterday Hope that went well.

[NothingAtAllXD]

@ccsmotc The whole premise of this video was to sabotage the corrupt institution of mandatory public schooling, but you missed that!

[NothingAtAllXD]

@HaloofCurls of compulsory public education. My advice is that you do a little research into this and stop being ignorant. Go look up "John Taylor Gatto" and "Charlotte Iserbyt" and maybe you'll discover the truth. Adieu!

[NothingAtAllXD]

@HaloofCurls turn into business being conducted in a predictable society where the consumer is always following the latest "trends" deliberately inserted into the social complex and to help politicians manipulate the masses. That is why he tried to synthesize pragmatism and education and brought principals of animal conditioning known from Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner and Willhelm Wundt to the table in education. Rockefeller himself said that he wanted a nation of workers and he was a big proponent

[NothingAtAllXD]

@HaloofCurls public education has been by design created to destroy the minds of young children. Lenin said that education is a weapon that's effect is in who holds it. Indeed it is. This is based on real facts derived from primary sources from the founders themselves. Just do some searches on the founders and see what they thought about public education in their own writings. John Dewey even concedes that he wants education because it is about managing the children and creating habits which

[NothingAtAllXD]

@HaloofCurls Yes. You are trying to show to the state that the teacher has done her share of destroying the student's free will and free thinking by simplifying the child's innate intelligence to simple numbers on their ability to regurgitate fragmented pieces of information (in schools- propaganda). Maybe if you took the time to do some research on public education like on "John Taylor Gatto," the person from whom this video was inspired by maybe you would suddenly come to the epiphany that