Wal-Mart Doesn't Make the Grade

School is a month away but Wal-Mart has already received a failing report card. Local community leaders, activists, teachers and students will hold a "Send Wal-Mart Back to School" protest on Thursday at the Germantown Wal-Mart. The local protest is one of dozens of events over the next two weeks at Wal-Mart stores in 18 states. As part of the Germantown, MD "Send Wal-Mart Back to School" protest, teachers and students - fed up with Wal-Mart's failing grades for child labor, gender discrimination, poverty-level wages, and affordable health care for workers - will join local activists as they distribute "Wal-Mart's Failing Report Cards" to local consumers and citizens. WakeUpWalMart.com supporters will ask local shoppers to sign the "Send Wal-Mart Back to School" pledge, promising not to buy school supplies at Wal-Mart this year unless Wal-Mart promises to pay a living wage, end discrimination against women, adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor, and provide affordable health care so that taxpayers no longer have to foot part of Wal-Mart's billion-dollar health care bill.