Well, I've been waiting over fifteen minutes for www.whitehouse.gov to confirm my email address by sending me a link to click. This is because you cannot sign their petitions without having an account. There's a petition there that needs 25,000 signatures by the end of the month to get to the President's desk. It's to "Ensure all school libraries are properly staffed, open, and available for children every day."
Here's the body of the petition:
"Any school receiving Federal funds should be required to have a credentialed School Librarian on staff full time with a library that contains a minimum of 18 books per student. Failure to have a school library open to all students and/or failure to have a credentialed School Librarian to run that library should be punishable by a immediate withdrawal of all Federal monies.
Study after study has shown that well-stocked, well-funded, well-organized school libraries staffed by a "highly qualified" School Librarian, or other similarly qualified credentialed individual, improve student reading scores, test scores, and literacy rates. All children have the right to read and to have access to materials that will help them grow as learners and as people. No Library = No Freedom to Learn
Created: Oct 27, 2011
Issues: Education"
It's only been around a week, but it has just over 3,900 signatures. I'm not sure it's going to make it. Has the White House website bothered to hook this up to social media, so the petition can be shared easily?
Nope.
Plus you have to register, proving that you are a person with an email address. And click on a link (that still has not arrived) to be able to actually vote.
Here's the link, in case you have better luck than I have. And yes, I filled out the feedback form while waiting.
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