A White Rose by Brian Huskie

CONCLUSION

More and more people are waking up to the truth
that standardized assessments, school funding, state
standards, federal involvement in education,
billionaires and their charter schools, or any other flavor-of-
the-day-Diane-Ravitch-style-edu-controversy, are all mostly
symptoms (or sometimes pure distractions), and that the
problem is compulsion – even more to the root, the problem
is the threat of violence implied by compulsion. You cannot
bring peace and love with compulsion that is backed up by
violence any more than you can bring freedom through
military occupation, and the more powerful and omnipresent
compulsory school is in your family’s life, the more the threat
of violence looms over you.

It would satisfy my ego immensely to sell a million copies
of this book, but if a million copies sell, and nothing changes,
then I’m afraid that we’ve all wasted our time. Do me a favor.
If you are in middle or high school, or you know someone
who is, have them honestly grade themselves on this rubric.
If you score all “zeros” and “ones”, then you’re my kind of
person! You’re also trapped. Read this book and others like it;

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seek out like-minded people; most of all, take control of your
life and your future. It’s not anyone else’s but yours.

Thank you for reading, and I invite you to connect with
me at www.BrianHuskie.com.

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*Students who do not write in blue or black ink or request
written permission to use the bathroom, who socialize with
peers in class, or who skip class to go waste time in the world,
may score no more than a “1” in all categories.

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ABOUT BRIAN

Brian Huskie is the founder and director of Huskie’s
Heroes. He is a National Board Certified High School English
teacher with more than ten years of experience and a degree

in School Administration, founder of the Albany
High/Capital District Refugee Scholarship Endowment, an
Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, and author of A White
Rose: A Soldier’s Story of Love, War, and School. Brian and his
wife, Ramita, homeschool their two boys in Albany, NY.

Connect with Brian at www.BrianHuskie.com and
https://www.facebook.com/BrianHuskieAuthor/

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