Who I Am and What's On My Mind

This is a big step for me. For too long, except here on the HuffPost, I have lived in the world of anonymity, or better yet, using a pseudonym. I feel that doing this only has led me and my views to have less credibility and has affected my writing and opinions. Not that I am going to change who I am, and not that I will tell it like it is, but rather to tone it down, to be less sarcastic, less snarky.

I started my blog, southbronxschool.org in August 2008 as a way to keep a journal about my day to day dealings with everything in my school, PS 154, District 7, in The Bronx. After several months it morphed, as well as did I, into something bigger, more astute to the world of the so called "reform movement," and the ability to read between the lines and the double speak and give my 2 cents and be who I am.

Right now we live in the most perilous period ever in our education system in this country. There is a full throng attack by powers unseen, seen, and worse, those that have the money and the power and the wherewithal to foist their will -- not the parents, or students, but their will -- on what they it is they want. Sadly, the ones being damaged are the students and the families, particularly those that live in poverty and the inner city.

I have said it before and I will say it again. One person, not me, not you, not anyone can affect change, to stop these people from destroying education. It must be a group effort, a team effort. Students, parents, teachers must all band together, must all fight the fight until we are victorious against the deformers.

It can and will happen in time. I am, just as anyone that is reading this, just a cog. I wish to be nothing more. But many cogs together, thousands upon millions, turn the wheels of what is right and what can and will be accomplished.

Thank you for your time reading the writings of me, just one person in this fight. I plan to write and share more in the future.