The National High School Signing Day campaign by America First or Last Movement will attempt to get 4.1 million incoming high school freshmen students to commit to excellence.
Every great American movement had a defining moment. For the civil rights movement, it initiated with a bus boycott. For the labor movement, it was a strike over fair wages. The women’s movement moment came out the imprint of the right to vote marches.
The America First or Last Movement (AFLM) moment will come from the modern form of organizing behind a nation building moment to save our children by a national signing day campaign to commit to graduating from high school. And help spread the message via using social media.
The Arab Spring protest and Occupy movement are proof this form of galvanizing support for a cause can get millions to join it. The AMFL movement is banking they can too. By getting the average person that wouldn’t think twice about protesting to organize in their community to help support their children’s future.
A Teachable Moment
This movement is a more call to action message of simply making sure every boy and girl entering high school gives their commitment to finishing. There’s no new formula to concentrate on reconstructing our nations failing educational and economic system, then to state the importance of preparing the transition from childhood to adulthood, then through high school. This is something great for the child, and the community’s development. It’s a no-brainer.
If only 8 out of 10 students agrees to the campaign’s four key principles; stay drug free, not become a teen parent, become computer literate, and prepare for post-secondary education. It would save the nation over 300 billion dollars a year toward cutting down high school dropouts, and increase the nation’s high school graduation rate by 30 % by the year 2025.
This coincides with the America First or Last Movement’s goal to make the US number one in education globally. They’ve experienced how, by preparing incoming high school students for a path for success; it helps lead to higher graduation rates for high school as well as college.
How To Reach 4.1 Million Students
The class of 2016 is expected to have 4.1 million incoming freshmen in over 27,000 public high schools. And acquiring all those students signatures will be one of the nation’s greatest accomplishment. It can’t be done unless the American people want it to happen.
Therefore, the movement will need a consortium of 20 national organizations to participate. From educators, media, business, youth groups, and most especially parents. By August 29, the movement’s organizers hope to have organized all 20 consortium members, and have them ready to reach over 27,000 public high schools.
Social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Pinterest will be utilized as the movement’s channel of communicating with the students and their parents. By promoting and updating parents on where to sign-up and how. Which will lead up to the movement’s official signing opening date period from Monday, September 10th and ending on Monday, September 24th, the National High School Signing Day for the Class of 2016.
You Need to Get Involved
If you are a parent, and your child will be entering high school next year, you’ll be able to find out more information about how you can get involved with the US Student Pledge campaign at their website www.usent.org, in addition to, where you can join your local organizing committees near you.
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