SAVE OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION - And Now - On to the Supreme Court! 9/4/08

We expect opponents of public education to intensify their attacks in the
weeks running up to the hearing. As you know, the state department of
education moved to take over St. Louis Public Schools to stop your movement
for more educational opportunities for your children. They ousted your
elected representatives in order to say that ordinary citizens should have
no voice in deciding what education for their children should look like.
They worried about your desire to limit the role of private corporations in
the school system and annulled your vote in order to protect and sustain
corporate contracts.

In the next few weeks, we expect to see more attacks on you and your elected
school board as opponents of public education try to set the stage for the
Supreme Court¹s hearing.

That is why we need your help now. We want to make sure you are represented
by the best possible lawyers before the Supreme Court and we want to be able
to respond to public attacks on your educational rights, your voting rights,
and your rights to be involved in public decision-making. Doing that takes
money, however.

Please send your donation now, in any amount, from $10 to $10,000, to:

Save Our Children¹s Education
P.O. Box 21642
St. Louis, MO 63109-0642

All contributions are anonymous and are not publicly reported.   

The efforts to spin corporate control as somehow better than popular control
have already started. From the governor¹s effort to declare state control a
success while ignoring the mass exodus of students from the school system
and the chaotic start of the school year to the daily newspaper¹s embargo on
news and comment from your elected school board, opponents of public
education are trying to put a happy face on their failures and crush your
democratic spirit.

Just this week, Robbyn Wahby, the mayor's "education liaison," mocked your
efforts to improve public schools. Hundreds of you worked with the elected
school board to develop a plan to improve our schools. Hundreds more of you
worked with the elected board resolve specific problems in specific schools
as they came up ­ to get supplies where they were needed, repairs made,
adult supervision on playgrounds, and so on ­ and Wahby belittled all your
work as "nothing."

Don¹t let them silence you. Make your voice heard. Send your donation now
to:

Save Our Children¹s Education
P.O. Box 21642
St. Louis, MO 63109-0642

All contributions are anonymous and are not publicly reported.   

Thank you for joining the thousands of ordinary St. Louisans who refuse to
be treated as "nothing."

Sincerely,

Peter Downs
For Save Our Children¹s Education

pdowns@speakeasy.net