Tuesday, February 23, 2010

I made a t-shirt.

In case you're wondering why, go here and here and here. (Also here and here.)





I'm thinking about selling the shirt and donating the proceeds to Aurora Alternative High School, a public school of choice in the Monroe County Community School Corporation. Recently, in what I consider to be a cruel, short-sighted and deeply inequitable money-saving decision, the school board decided to shut the school and funnel its students into one of the district's large public high schools.

Also, the board decided to boot all elementary and middle school librarians. Keep the libraries open, but get rid of the librarians. Smart choice, that. This way, the kids who have been exposed to reading and books at home will still have access to all the books they could want, while the less lucky kids who haven't received support for reading at home will just walk right on by. And nobody benefits from the guided support for accessing online and electronic information that librarians and media specialists have gotten so good at offering.

Fantastic.

2 comments:

The Untwitterable said...

Awesome shirt!! It's funny and bittersweet and slightly poignant.

it also gives me an idea for a possible next iteration of the modelling activity.

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