I asked my husband, Brian, what cause is most important to him and he answered 'Education' without any hesitation. Brian is a teacher, right now he's teaching at a charter school in town but before that he taught at the SUSD and was made redundant following budget cuts in 2010. Education is important to him, not just because it's his job but because he believes it is the most important aspect of society. "Did you know that prisons look at the reading scores of 6th graders to decide how many extra prisons they're going to need to build in the following 20 years?" He says things like this to me all the time. When he was made redundant from his job Brian was probably the least surprised to discover that while the SUSD now has an average class size of above 30 they have continued to hire more administrators, obliterating teachers jobs.
I walked from our house to the local school, Blenman Elementary and using pavement chalks wrote out some of the things he has told me about Education over the years. I hope that someone at the school sees it and it makes them think.
this is one of the first times where chalk was the right material, not just an easy way not to do something permanent. It speaks to the context of place,and the idea of erasure. Good job.
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