Bloggers: help kids in Kentucky

Submitted by Rebecca MacKinnon on Sun, 2004/11/21 - 8:56pm.

Bloggercorps has received the following email from Bob Cornett in Kentucky:

Bunches of old folks and educators are helping to build partnerships between children and adults. These are purposeful partnerships, with real community improvement as the objective. We believe that such partnerships provide the best ways to learn; actively accomplishing something is far more meaningful than passively sitting in a classroom preparing for standardized tests designed by "experts" who don't know either the children or their communities.

Beyond what the children learn, however, the partnerships constitute the practice of active, grass-roots democracy. We believe that this kind of democracy is essential to the renewal of our nation's civic health.

Most of our active participants are now located in and near Kentucky, but we envision a "movement" that will connect like-minded people throughout the nation.

Instead of offices and officers -- we have neither -- we have a solid commitment both to children and to grass-roots democracy. With the assistance of like-minded bloggers, we believe we can be more effective and, at the same time, can avoid the money-chasing and other problems that so often hamper effectiveness.

We very much need the help of some thoughtful bloggers.

Bob Cornett

328 Midway Rd.
Georgetown, KY 40324

Please let us know if you'd like to help.

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