BARRY'S CORNER - LIVING IN ELKMONT

Tough day. Yeah , yeah I know....everyone has them. Not really complaining....well may be a little, but there are things happening with our children that have me wondering about the future. Kids and young lives are not commodities. They are not numbers on a spreadsheet and they are not deserving of the injustice that some people and some who hold power in education want to lay on them. Programs that work, in which time and money have been spent on training teachers are in jeopardy in this state. It is so discouraging to see decisions being made by people who claim to be stakeholders but have no experience in a classroom or any education setting. 

I have been in the business a long time. Education has become less of a preparation for "real" life and more of a business where hard work and discipline are not rewarded and political wrangling is ruling the planning of instruction and holding our teachers and students back. Educators hands are tied through paper work, lack of ability to discipline children and ever changing programs and useless rhetoric. 

 

The positive (and I do try to remain positive) is the dedicated professionals who I work with daily and the efforts put forth to do the "right" thing while adhering to the rules. I know a lot of work places have the same problem. Policy makers who have no understanding of day to day realities. The difference is we are working with the souls of children. Living and breathing individuals who will make up our future. Be aware! Have a good one!