I talk. A lot. NEA tries to make it useful by putting my voice on the radio or television so folks listening can hear what educators are thinking and fearing and hoping. Nobody has enough money to buy enough air time to have the public truly understand what’s at stake. We often have to depend on the kindness of free media and hope that there’s a story that needs to be heard and that educators will be invited to say a few words here or there.
I was interviewed a few weeks ago in a back-to-school network story about how teachers and teaching assistants and even bus drivers often spend money out of their own pockets to get students what school budgets and parents can’t afford.
(Watch a segment of Destination Casa Blanca)
They interviewed me for half an hour. When it aired, it was, of course, part of a larger story and my husband Tivo’d it and counted… .
