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Bloggers for children at Netroots Nation

Jul 23rd, 2010
by Lily.
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The Latina blogger made a good point about the lack of day care – here at the bloggers’ conference.

A retired teacher made a good point about why a district would ever think it was a great idea to put the most inexperienced beginners teaching in the most challenged school communities. She wants to talk about Teach for America.

A dad attending the Parents Caucus of bloggers said that he had a different experience than Mommies being an involved working father. At his work, when he needed time off to attend his daughter’s school function or care for a sick child, he was seen as the office hero, not the “mommy track” employee who didn’t take her work seriously.

We’re talking and typing and texting and posting here at Netroots Nation where thousands, literally thousands, of community activists have gathered live and in person to change the world.
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Netroots Nation Unite!

Jul 20th, 2010
by Lily.
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I’m going to a bloggers conference. My first. I am qualified because I write this blog. But maybe there’s something else that qualifies me. I write what matters to me. I represent 3.2 million educators in America’s public schools, colleges and universities. And when you represent people, you try to give voice to them.

But that’s not what I do in this blog.

In this blog, I am selfish. I don’t write what somebody tells me to write. I don’t write about something that someone voted on. I write about something that matters to me.

I feel justified because, after all, I’m one of those 3.2 million educators. I figure I was elected because somebody out there liked what I had to say and how I said it. So I’m going to a bloggers conference to meet other people who don’t let somebody tell them what to write or what to feel.

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