ABE students participate in letter writing campaign.

Anyone who tells you that writing letters to your State Senators, Congressmen, Congresswomen, and Representatives is a waste of time is sadly mistaken. How do I know this, because last month students in every program within ABE participated in a State wide letter writing campaign? The purpose of this campaign, to increase the funding for ABE programs throughout the state. Students were asked to choose one individual, Tom Udall, Heather Wilson, Jeff Bingaman, Pete Dominici, or Steve Pearce. After selecting one to write to, each student wrote about why they decided to come back to school, what they planned on doing after they finished school, and how important it is for programs like ABE to continue receiving adequate funding. Now here it is May, just one month later and we are already receiving tons of responses from these busy people in Washington. These responses are the proof the our elected officials do care, and do listen to all of their constituents, so I leave with this, even though it seems as the years go on we have less and less connection with the advocates that are here to help us fight with what can sometimes be described as daunting tasks, everyone here at ABE now believes in the political system. They believe that their voices are being heard. The help is out there, it’s up to us as educators, students, and administrators to go out and get it.