Okay, I have an answer. In our school district, we have a fair number of year round schools and April has too many students off track during that time. Also, the National week is very close to spring break. Our committee head says they should move it!
[ 03-10-2004, 09:04 PM: Message edited by: Michelle B ]
TVTO is our local committee. Supported by the School District, PTA, and many other community members. It's been getting bigger every year and this is my first year on the committee as the PTA rep. As for why we do it in March. I have no idea but I will e-mail Jody now to see why. March is reading month and that may have been the initial reason behind it or it may be more local. But that website is done for our community only. I'll give you a better answer when I get one (I hope!)
I've also wondered why the orgination that sponsors National TV turn-off week does not have the week during March for reading month? That would seem logial to me.
Michelle B--
Love your website--there's some great stuff there! But I was only familiar with www.tvturnoff.org/
. Who is www.tvto.org
sponsored by? Is that some sort of local consortium that wanted to celebrate the week now instead of in April for some reason?
We are currently in the middle of TV Turnoff week in our district. In fact, I am on the committee. We started several months ago with planning and had a luncheon in February to announce it. March 6th, we "Clicked" it off with an expo at one of the local shopping centers. most of the activities were free (Our PTA Council booth did face painting) The school with the most attendees gets $400 gift certificate to Comp USA, Family reading contests and classroom reading contests throughout the week.
At the expo, we gave out "Bag the Remote" bags with little goodies and as each kid registered, they recieved a drawing ticket. The big thing was that it was free and TV-free.
You can check out our TV-Turnoff week website at www.tvto.org
to get more info, including the un-tv guide.
We're day Four into the week with no TV!
