Daily Kos: State of the Nation (via post-gazette.com)
Word spread quickly last week through Sto-Rox High School when students learned that the administrative offices were filled with Barack Obama paraphernalia.

Students snapped up posters and stickers for their lockers, backpacks and bedroom walls, eager to commemorate the victory of the first African American to ascend to the nation’s highest office.

The enthusiasm excited administrators, but it’s not what brought tears to the eyes of Jean Schmalzreid, the district’s director of federal programs and special projects. That happened when she saw school facilities workers bring in dolly after dolly piled high with thousands of dollars worth of supplies donated from Obama campaign offices in Pittsburgh.

Six computers will be dedicated to creating learning centers for struggling middle school students. An all-in-one printer, copier and fax machine will hum all day in the middle school library. And the art department received piles of markers, paint and poster board.

This can’t be the first time this has happened, as I’ve personally arranged for corporate computer equipment to be donated to local schools, but what amazes me is that there’s enough media love for people to actively report on these good deeds, in an effort to show the world that yes, things are going to be different now.

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