Can I Sit with You is an effort by parents to accomplish valuable goals: (a) capture and publish people’s recollections of difficult school times, explaining what it’s like to have those times and (b) raise funds for a parent-teacher group concerned with special education. Jennifer Myers and Shannon Rosa are leading the effort, and they describe it in this way:
Hey, Kids!
Do you remember how the other kids at school made your life hell? Don’t you think that story needs to be told? Please?
The goal of Can I Sit With You is to share our schoolyard horror stories not only amongst ourselves, but also with the children who are experiencing this special form of social purgatory right now. We want them to know that even though what they’re going through sucks, they’re not alone.
(If your school social experience was heavenly, that’s okay–we certainly wouldn’t mind some success stories.)
Proceeds from Can I Sit With You will go directly to our local, fledgling, underfunded, desperately needed Special Education PTA, SEPTAR. To that end, we’re going to compile the best selections from this blog into a book, which we will start selling in mid-November 2007.
Jen and Shan publish the current entries and provide the background and rationale for their project. The special education PTA for which they’re raising funds is called SEPTAR.
Flash of the electrons to StarrHillGirl and Liz Ditz for alerting me to this.
