CPB Helped Make Me

I really want to think that I’m the type of child who benefitted the most with PBS:

I:

• Grew up in a small village under-served by traditional media.
• Attended public schools in the 87th poorest county in Ohio with books that were sometimes 30 years old (I had books in High School that my mom used.)
• Grew a love of math and Science from shows on PBS like Square One, which Mathnet helped me fall in love with Dragnet, NOVA, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego which taught me about geography.

Thinking about this more doesn’t make me want to put something on a pedestal…but it does make me feel like I’m not special, and that PBS did it’s job. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting – CPB – was dismantled today, unceremoniously. I hope and pray that one day, we can give kids a chance like I got to succeed.