Passionate informed critical-thinking citizensFirst we teach and model reading and love of reading to our students in our elementary school libraries. And after that, I firmly believe that we have a higher purpose, from elementary through high school, of guiding our students to learn and think for themselves. This is a crucial attribute of involved citizens. Beyond the ability to read, beyond being an avid reader, a citizen needs to be media literate, information literate. Especially now, we all need to be able to find information, sift through the propaganda to whatever truth can be found, decide what we believe is right, and express ourselves.
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This is wonderful! I love the photo. Is it the rally you went to in DC? And the message is just perfect. There is just so much information out there. It is critical for society that our voters and future voters can distinguish the wheat from the chaff.
Yes. The photo is of 1.25 million people on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., April 2002, for the March for Women's Lives. There were hundreds of thousands of young people/students marching with us in protest of the Congress threatening more and more of American women's rights. My 17 year old daughter and I were there. It was magnificent and very peaceful, except for the threatening anti-choice men with their children along some sections of the route. Interesting to think that those men and I were all modeling what it means to be a citizen to our children.
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