StudentsFirst will save you a seat...

I just got an email from STUDENTS FIRST. The email said, "We will host you at the Capitol!" and "Most importantly, we'll save a spot for you at the committee hearings!"

EXCUSE ME???

Students First employees - fighting in favor of Common Core and Charter Schools - are:
(1) PAID to show up, and
(2) Given PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT over REAL Tennesseans,
who are NOT paid to be there, 
who have traveled long distances, and
some have even taken vacation time from their jobs in order to attend these very important hearings.

I keep showing up with my kids HOURS early, to make sure we can get in only to find no available seats!  THIS IS WHY!!!  Sorry, I am not exaggerating one bit when I say your children's education is for sale!

(shared with permission from a Mom in Williamson County)

Email from StudentsFirst to their mailing list:

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Paige Donaldson, Field Coordinator for StudentsFirst, is probably a very nice girl.  Her LinkedIn profile shows that she recently graduated from college and that during college, she worked weekends at a Sportsbar to supplement her college expenses.  We know Paige Donaldson was just doing her job, and we wish her luck someday if she has kids of her own.  We doubt she will appreciate out-of-state parties (who send their own kids to private schools exempt from these issues) meddling with her own children's education or her community's public schools.

Unless you have a Mom or Dad - a real TN parent - in that coordinator spot, there is no credibility.  StudentsFirst is a heavily-funded, out-of-state organization who saves seats in OUR state committee meetings and gives money to OUR elected officials to influence them.  Not nice.