From: Julia Kelen To: A16.A16(kidstv) Date: 11/6/95 1:18pm Subject: educational kids' tv, yes! This posting is to add my voice to the 80% of Americans who believe that networks should be required to offer a minimum number of hours daily (I'd personally favor at least two or three!) of educational programming for children. It is appalling that the networks presume to consider such fare as "America's Funniest Home Videos" to be educational. Clearly, they believe we're idiots, if they think we'll accept this (but then, what else is new? They've always believed we're idiots -- at least they've programmed that way!). As education in the school becomes vitiated, or replaced with survival skills, self-esteem workshops and time-outs for disciplinary measures, the need for broadcast sources of education becomes more and more critical. This, as I reecall, was the original vision of broadcasting in the first half of this century, during its developmental stages -- not the cash-cow for monstrous corporations it has become. I'd like to urge the FCC to uphold the earlier vision, of the broadcast media as an entity with massive power to educate, a power that should be utilized. Thank you! Julia Kelen 5501 Oyster Bay Rd. NW Olympia, WA 98502 email: kelenj@elwha.evergreen.edu