QUOTE(Cock-up-over-conspiracy @ Mon 10th May 2010, 3:49pm)
Perhaps we should take the discuss directly to people like associations of public librarians, education departments, PTAs and so on. It is pretty hard to push a product as "educational" when it is barred or limited from all establishments of education. Not a short haul work but doable.
QUOTE(Subtle Bee @ Sat 17th April 2010, 6:04pm)
What I think could be more effective is a bottom-up approach:
a) do a bit of online research (the easy kind!) to identify schools encouraging or permitting access to WP & Commons;
b) draft two letters (and this I would help with) - one to the schools and school boards in question, the other to whatever local parents' boards and councils exist - laying out the issue with informative links, and including Sanger's letter, and maybe Moller's responses. Make them compelling.
c) send them prior to board meetings/ parent-teacher nights, giving authorities a chance to take proactive steps prior to the next accountability session, or having to explain why they didn't to a bunch of outraged parents.
d) send same with a press release to local media, who have to cover these meetings where nothing interesting ever happens. Giving them the scoop will spark their enthusiasm. If you make them aware that the story has a larger context, and help them feed off each other's developments, along with the sensational rubberneck quality of the subject, you might really pique their interest.
e) entreat all those parents and boards, newly converted, to send letters to Congressfolk &tc, against a (hopefully!) media background of grassroots parental activism against the appalling spectre of WikiPron.
f) popcorn.
I also think that appealing to small-town media and parents of schoolkids is easier than to online libertarian porn-seeking dweebs, although in fact I'm much more of the latter. It's also easier for local authorities to take immediate action (ban WP from schools) than for muckymucks to strike a committee to consider amending laws with consitutional implications. That can come later. Thoughts?
I wrote that a few weeks ago, before Shotgun Larry made the task considerably easier - now it's just about giving legs, instead of getting them. I still think it's not a bad plan, with updates and modifications to account for events.
