Wednesday, October 22, 2008

I've been published

No, not Jeff this time. Me. An article came out in the local paper the other day that really struck a chord with me. It was all about the sad state of education in Hattiesburg. I got all riled up and decided to add a comment to the article. I was quite pleased with my response, so you can imagine my disappointment when I realized the length was very much over the number of characters allowed. So I decided to write letter to the editor.

Here it is:
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20081022/OPINION03/810220333/1014/OPINION

However, they edited my piece to suit their purposes, and they took off a very good part, which was my whole point and purpose of writing the article. At the end, I had given three websites that went into more detail about the six early literacy skills and cited the research to which I was referring. Oh well, so far I've had one positive comment posted. Let's see if I can create a controversy.

2 comments:

Kirsten said...

way to go Melanie!!!

Scooter said...

...So let's get those references and websites you mentioned, but they neglected to post!