updated March 13, 2008
We're Mothers Defending Our Children's Education!
Travis Elementary & Horace Mann Academy supporters did march in the Woman's Day Parade on Saturday! We began gathering around 9:30 am at Travis Park (coincidence?). We hit the street at about 10:10 am. It was a perfect day for a march. Maybe it was a little cold at first but we definately warmed up once on Houston Street carrying our signs and banners and chanting along with each other.
Many women and organizations (newspaper reported 500 people)marched for various reasons, ours of course was for our children's education made loud by our chant of "We're Mothers Defending Our Children's Education".
Once we reached Plaza del Zacate (Milam Park) we set up our table to once again gather signatures for the petitions. Two petitions. Two affected schools. One Table. One Goal. To keep our schools open.
We not only gathered signatures for our own petition but also gathered signatures for each other. As people approached our table we'd ask them "Have you had a chance to sign our petitions yet?" We'd explain the situation and why it is a bad decision on the part of the SAISD to be closing both of these outstanding institutions. Inevitably each person signed the Keep Travis Open petition and the Horace Mann Academy's petition. We also gathered video footage of our day. It will be posted real soon. Keep an eye out for it. As far as we are concerned the march was a great success!
This is the banner that we hope to be placing on our school very soon:
