The A+ Activist

Change Begins with You

June 9th, 2008 Edit

Something I realized today as I went through my feeds and message boards.

I see a lot of parents taking issue with the way their school is run; they don’t like the teachers, the kids, the administration, and the rules.  The number of things we have problems with seems to grow and grow but in many of the threads I read, there is little to offer in the line of help or solutions.

I’m always pleased when someone offers some great ideas on how to help a parent. My feelings of elation soon dissipate when the parent says they can’t do it because of work.

Here are my thoughts on this and someone tell me if I am wrong but… if you want change, you are going to have to go out and get it. The school is not going to change for you based on your blogging, messages or complaining to your friends.

It’s the same message we try to send our kids, if you don’t like something, you have to do something about it in order for things to get better.

But how? I can hear you asking me already –

That’s what we will work on this week. How we make the changes. How we become the activists in our schools. We must become a presence inside the halls of our children’s schools in order for administrators and teachers to take us seriously.

We have all summer and we can create a better school year for our children.

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