Network for Public Education

It returns!

A couple weeks ago, Diane Ravitch sent out this tweet:

Are you a proud #PublicSchoolGrad? Tweet or post to Facebook a selfie with the name of your high school and #PublicSchoolGrad to tell the world that public education is the lifeblood of your community, and is worth standing up for!

I graduated from San Jacinto HS in Houston!

— Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) June 17, 2019

So of course it was time to dust off the #PublicSchoolSuccess image generator.  I made a few updates, including a new color scheme.  Also, since my coding abilities remain complete shite, I threw the code to GitLab so others may modify it.

Credit remains with Shane Chism for the original code.

The amazing people at Badass Teachers Association put together an excellent Twitter campaign featuring notable public school graduates.  Some examples:

Like 90% of Americans, @neiltyson and I attended public school. We need to protect them. #mymcsd #PublicSchoolSuccess Let @BetsyDeVos know! pic.twitter.com/ZircoSJtSL

— Minimize Testing (@MinimizeTesting) December 24, 2016

#PublicSchoolSuccess #NotMySOE pic.twitter.com/nkWua6fnCa

— Marla Kilfoyle (@marla_kilfoyle) December 24, 2016

To make something like this go viral, though, will take thousands more contributions.

So, I threw together an app that will let people add their face to the image and post it to their favorite social media.

The #PublicSchoolSuccess App

Step 1: Go to adamlabay.net/fbtag/uploader.html

Step 2: Upload a picture of your face.

Step 3: Save the resulting image.

Step 4: Tweet it to @BetsyDeVos and make sure to use the hashtag #PublicSchoolSuccess. If you have the space, copy @BadassTeachersA as well.

Step 5: Spread the gospel.

The Code

To be clear, I did pitifully little to create this.  All the grunt work was done by Shane Chism and I just tweaked the code.  That said, if you want the gory details, I’ll post them shortly.