90% of success is just showing up.

It has been hard to stay on top of my blog here. There is so much going on. On Monday, I attended the Woodbridge Board of Education meeting which inspired my blog post, No Parent Left Behind.

Tuesday, I attended the Election Day Registration forum at Yale. Kim helped organize it and provided her thoughts about it on the Common Cause Blog.

Wednesday, I went to the Beecher Road School Parent Teacher Organization meeting at Fiona’s school. There was a lively brainstorming session about how to make the school ‘greener’.

With that, when I get a free moment, I try to read and reply to emails, blog posts and various messages on assorted microblogging sites. All of this comes back to the same thing, participation.

We need parents to participate more in their children’s educational experience. We need more voters to participate in our electoral system. We need more people to work together to find ways to address issues our communities and our countries face.