Wow, What A Week!

I'm mentally drained, physically tired and miles to go before I sleep! Did I forget to tell you we have a field trip to the Montgomery Zoo on Friday? We had Career Week and American Education Week the same week. We had a retired teacher's luncheon at our school today. It made me think about the changes in Education over the past 80 years. The school where I teach just celebrated its 80th birthday with a huge celebration. There are people in our community who were a part of that first class. Once upon a time, there were little girls who grew up to be teachers. They taught with pride, dignity and, above all, discipline. Parents did whatever it took to help their children learn. That is what children do in school. They learn. The school is a learning environment. The school is not there to please everybody who thinks they should be pleased or catered to. Teaching begins in the home because a disciplined child exhibits self-control and shows respect because that is how he has been taught in his first school - his home. We still teach reading, math, language, spelling, health, history, science and P. E. We strive to teach the whole child. We will never please everyone 100% of the time but we can teach children 100% of the time.