[NIFL-FAMILY:1851] Re: Literacy President

From: Betsy Rubin (brmidwest@ameritech.net)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 16:29:09 EDT


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To All Readers:

If a posting to a NIFL listserv is "permissible based on all lists'
guidelines," then WHY must there be any explanation or apology?

The guidelines restrict what is allowable for people to say in this forum.
Are we now expected to censor our speech beyond the guidelines?

Betsy Rubin

----- Original Message -----
From: "jataylor" <jataylor@utk.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1850] Literacy President


> Colleagues:
> Last Friday, May 14th, I posted a message to NIFL lists titled "Literacy
> President." Literacy President is a collaborative, non-partisan initiative
> supported by Voice for Adult Literacy United for Education (VALUE), The
Change
> Agent, and other groups designed to:
>
> - raise national awareness of adult literacy regardless of who is elected;
> - ask Presidential candidates broad questions about adult literacy; and
> - engage adult learners and practitioners around contextualized teaching
and
> learning on civic education and learner leadership using the EFF Citizen
Role
> Map and EFF Content Standards.
>
> It has been called to my attention that although the post I made (as a
private
> citizen) for the group was permissible based on all lists' guidelines, it
was
> also of a politically-sensitive nature and some feel it may not be
appropriate
> for NIFL lists. My intention was to alert teachers about an exciting new
> project. If my post has caused any confusion, I apologize.
>
> Jackie
>
> Jackie Taylor
> jataylor_1@yahoo.com



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