Save Reading Rainbow

[filkertom]

Y'see, this is Example #4,907,831 of certain powers-that-be in this country wanting to keep people stupid. Reading Rainbow has been helping children learn not only to read but to love reading for a quarter century. And they still have to beg for donations and support, and now it's at the point where they don't have funds to create new episodes.

Literacy is the single most important mechanical element in education. Getting kids to love learning is equally important, but, once you've instilled that love, you have to give them tools to learn on their own.

An inability to read means being almost completely shut out of our world's knowledge and information systems.

Click here to sign their petition and to donate financial support.

Thanks to redaxe for finding this one.

Comments

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Went there, passed it on, will send money later. Thanks.
And what's your favorite book?

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

"book"? Singular? Oh, that is one profoundly evil question. :)

Yes I know...

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

It's not a question I could answer. I would even have trouble with the "s" attached. Of course it is no different when you ask "what's your favorite song, or musical piece". (Your icon made me think of that.) I tried to do a top 100 list and just couldn't do it. Maybe a top 100 in each genre???

Re: Yes I know...

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I might be able to do a "Ten Books I Can Sit Down And Read Any Time Without Having To Gear Up For It", but probably not anything more specific than that. Ow.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

The last thing, the absolute last thing that the Idiot-In-Chief and his band of extremist sociopaths and wanna-be Inquisitors want is an electorate capable of rational thought. Stop people from being able to read at a decent level, you cut them off from news sources outside of TV, and outside of their control.

Yes, I do believe they're that dark and sinister.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The last thing, the absolute last thing that the Idiot-In-Chief and his band of extremist sociopaths and wanna-be Inquisitors want is an electorate capable of rational thought.

Precisely. That's why they're dismantling science programs and replacing facts with faith-based abstinence and "intelligent" design classes.

If you can read, you can think. If you can think, you can question. And considering that the one thing this administration WILL NOT TOLERATE is anyone who questions... y'know those scripted, hand-picked citizens at the town meetings? Well, the Washington Post had an article today saying that when the President wanted to talk to soldiers in Iraq about the situation they were equally hand-picked and given scripts, lest the Commander in Chief have an accidental brush with anything outside the bubble.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I would so love to be there when reality finally gives the Idiot-In-Chief the cosmic wedgie from hell. Just to see the look on his face.

I at least can look forward to living long enough to watch history declare him and his clique of bigots to be America's Worst Mistake.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Your icon wins. Congratulations.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Taken from the editorial cartoons of muskrat_john. The really evil icon says "Impeach Bush"... and shows an American floating face-down in Katrina floodwater. So much for keeping US citizens safe on US soil!

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen his editorial cartoons, though I'm a regular Dork Tower reader.

Anyway, I should probably stop thinking about Bush now, because I don't think my coworkers would appreciate me yelling and throwing things.

dark & sinister

[birder2.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I wish you were wrong--but I suspect you're not!

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

I'm signing the petition, but I'm somewhat hesitant to donate. The money isn't going directly to Reading Rainbow. The money is actually going to the umbrella organization running the petition drive.

I think I'll make my donation to pbs.org instead.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Works for me.

woah.

[purplemoonwoman.livejournal.com]

This is terrible. I'm signing the petition and posting it to my livejournal, too.

thanks, Tom, for being a public servant on this issue.