shelly blake plock

a challenge to doubters, do something impossible

Yes, crazy stuff happens. And maybe if we deal with the poverty and crushed communities that are realities for our lowest income students and maybe if we allowed them to actually have voices and take part in the digital revolution that is galvanizing the spirit of low-income and oppressed people throughout the world into something empowering and reality-changing, and maybe if we got rid of the red tape and the fear that gives us excuses about why there has to be a digital divide, then maybe we’d actually be amazed at what our kids can do.

America doesn’t lack money. The money is there. What America seems to be lacking is the will to actually use its strength to empower the folks we’ve conveniently left behind.