One of the many challenges we have in public education is complacency. I truly believe that most teachers enter the profession for the right reasons. They want to make a difference, they want to impact the lives of children, and they want to shape our society’s future. This has been proven over and over again […]
For the last five years I have been serving on our local school board. The time I have spent in this position has expanded my views on leadership. Over the years literally every person I have seen elected struggled with the same issue. That struggle is the need to govern instead of direct. As adults, […]
This is an excellent article by Adrian Short. It accurately points out the quiet disappearance of any privacy on the web. With so much control going to what he refers to as the “Big Web” it will be facinating to watch. The translation of this power to the real world is something we have never […]
Recently I have really been a bit down and almost depressed. I have been somewhat ineffective in my work, strong stresses within my school board, and some family issues all had me discouraged. It was very tempting to just sit in a dark room and read, watch tv and just basicly “cave”. A very male […]
“With a dozen or so cars parked outside Rogers Middle School being the norm for an Affton School Board meeting, there clearly had to be something going on Sept. 20 when the lot showed scarcely a vacant slot. The answer: The rank and file of area construction unions were there to root on the board’s […]
“An apologetic Affton School Board on Sept. 20 voted unanimously to – for a second consecutive year – raise the tax rate on residential property in light of increasing fixed costs and stagnant growth. After a required public hearing, the board voted on a schedule of rate hikes that included raising the residential tax rate […]