Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Post In Which I Realize I Should Blog More

I should. Because I love my blog.

But maybe I shouldn't be blogging right now because what I should be doing right now is working on a little schpiel I have to give at tonight's PTA meeting. As you may remember, I am in an almost constant state of fretfulness over the plight of struggling readers. When I see a kid who can't read, I want to throttle someone. Seriously. It wrenches the heart all over the place. I believe that if you don't have anything else in the whole world, you should at least possess the skills required to lose yourself in Harriet the Spy, for god's sake.

Anyways, months ago a night of feverish Googling unearthed a wonderful, local non-profit called Reading Partners. They set up reading centers at schools, and then twice a week—for 45 minutes each time—they provide intensive, one-on-one reading instruction for struggling readers. Is this not brilliant?! So of course I e-mailed them and set up a meeting to persuade them to set up shop at our school. And guess what?

So tonight I am asking our parents to volunteer for the program. This invitation will be met, I am certain, with an echoing silence. But this shall not stop me. I will smile! I will engage! I will straddle the fine line between enthusiasm and heavy-handedness! I will persuade, wink, and perhaps perform an interpretive dance!

And then there will be more silence.

4 comments:

Shuboy said...

or you can just say what you said here.
"...if you don't ahve anything else in the whole world, you should at least psosess the skills required to lose yourself in Harriet the Spy..."
that made perfect sense to your cold-hearted shuboy.
it should work for your fancy ladies!

Jill said...

How did it go last night? Did you get oodles of volunteers?

Carl said...

After spending time volunteering in a mission, where one of the things I did was help some of these men fill out job aps as many were unable to read, I sincerely wish you the best of luck with this. You need pretty advanced literacy to get a Wal-Mart greeter gig. Competing with all those art-history majors...

ver said...

Sorry for the late response, and thank you for your well wishes! I feel bad, actually, because quite a few people asked me for more information. It wasn't quite the dead silence I anticipated! Of course, asking for more information is not the same thing as becoming a tutor. We'll see...