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“These admittedly
simple words of yours arrive at what, in my opinion, is a very profound
truth. As a school administrator (VP, Principal,
Curriculum Director, Superintendent) I’ve been around long enough to have seen
literally dozens and dozens of school board initiatives, state education
department proposals, even a bunch of mandates handed down by the state
legislature. But the truth is that none
of them will work unless we do. Unless
we work—and not necessarily harder, but smarter. Unless parents work.
Unless teachers work. Unless we
truly get students to value and honor the ethic of work. Nothing is going to work, until and unless
we put an end to some of the rituals of teaching and get on with the really
critical aspects, as they say, where the rubber meets the road. Anyhow…I have it up in my office and many
say they enjoy this piece.”