Behind Again
That’s it–I know I’ll never live up to the idea that I can blog every day–even for a short period of time. As of today I have 5 days left as a school system employee–and it’s been an amazing ride. The ride is amazing because of the people; not the things, not the equipment, the people. It is people that make anything rise from mediocrity to greatness and the people that I have been surrounded with are amazing.
In times of budget cuts it is so important the we remember that, if we let the people go, we are losing riches that will not easily return. We should be looking at things that are replaceable, and looking at the changing world.
If we are out to save people then we must look at non-people expenditures. In today’s world of open source, how do you justify millions for a word processor when I have a choice of 4 or 5 good ones that are absolutely free; how do you explain buying electronic classroom shells when the “do it yourself” version would let you create something that’s primary friendly? Where’s the person fighting the notion that just because something’s free it can’t possibly be as good?
The only thing that’s essential are the people who understand how to reach students; how to help them dig deep into questions and figure out how to figure things out. To build on organized chaos’s idea; people who know how to help kids understand “we CAN do hard things”. I just wish the school board and others up there realized we CAN do hard things–as long as we have the right people.