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Moms take aim at ineffective teachers in new movie

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    'Won't Back Down' shows pro-education moms

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Thank you Bryant in the new movie that's coming out this weekend won't back down.

Two moms joining forces to take on their children's failing school.

I don't need -- picnic yesterday.

Nineteen years seven out of ten -- -- leave Adams can barely read.

There are people out there designing and building prison.

And those people are looking into schools and they're figuring out what kids -- going to drop out so they know how many prison cells to build.

And you know what I want Citadel's president -- I want to say hands off my case.

Our next guest was interviewed for this movie because she and her daughter daughter have lived news.

-- Diaz is coordinator of the desert trails parent union in California and she's my desk good morning to doing.

Good morning so tell me what your struggle was with your child and what you wanted to happen when she went to school.

Well as -- excuse me my daughter was the slow learner and she.

He struggled with reading and we have put her special day class so that she -- Get caught up with the rest of the students and tissues or repetitive earnestly catch on as quickly -- the other kid's intention was never for her to stay in the classroom.

And unfortunately it ended at that she stayed there for part too long and she fault fell really far behind.

And last year she started fifth grade for the second time we had a second grade reading level.

By the time she -- student when a break.

She was able to meet at a fourth grade -- -- -- what I just went and what happened what happened all of -- that she was in -- -- classes and you're not alone because a lot of parents in your district asking the same question it's my understanding that your school.

Is in the bottom 10% of the country.

What did you decide to do to take action as a group of parents together.

Well -- in the bottom 10% of the state -- what we decided to do as a group of parents we all got together and we decided to contact parent revolution.

And through -- we would learn to we were able to organize our parents.

To take surveys and find out what would like to have happen at her school from that we.

We circulated petitions and we turn them into the district to make our schools make improvements necessary for our schools.

In our children to -- and it's my understanding that now you are working to put together your own kind of school system.

That the parents will be in charge of in this movie.

Emulates what you've gone through in desert trails entering Diaz thanks so much for sharing your personal story with us today.

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