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We've sent the letters, the emails. We've made the phone calls. We've even hand-delivered “lost” mail. I won't say we've done it all, but we finally have a meeting with The Director of Student Services/Curriculum, Laura Watson, next week in the Parma City School District!
**chants over small victory**
It's been a difficult road to something so simple: over a year of communication (and lack thereof) for an afternoon meeting. Although the PCSD doesn't know this, over that year and a half, the Ohio Advocates have met with individuals whose decision-making power is exponential in comparison: Sherrod Brown, Dennis Kucinich, Ted Strickland, Peter Lawson Jones, Tim Hagan, Ohio School Board Memers, Ohio Senators and Representatives; we may be young, but our network of contact proves that we have the leverage over the decisions that are being made.
I hope to carry this message to Parma next Thursday. I mean business, and I feel I have a right as a student and consumer to ask (and then demand) that they take Operation Keepsake out of their district. One problem we've noticed is that there is no cohesion between schools, and sometimes even between teachers—they are teaching whatever they decide, which is not the right way to do things. Someone from one school might be taught something different at another—so after we get OK out of there (because we will), we're gonna ask for a streamlined and universal district sex education curriculum that is, obviously, comprehensive.
While it began over a year ago, the real start (should I say battle?) is next week with Laura. The fate of the meeting remains unknown, but our actions afterward, regardless of her decision, have been mapped out. May the conversation finally begin!
Updates to follow!
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