What could be a better example of how education is supposed to be than a school play? It has all the elements. Literature, the play itself, and math, even. I mean there is the timing thing which is kind of mathematical in a digital sort of way. Then there is the applied math when you thing of the set construction.
It all comes together in the performance. It's a big picture thing, even if it's not on film. Because life is a performance, don't you see. We do our best to live up to what other people expect, you know the ones that pay our salary (oh, I just remembered this poet don't get no salary no more).
A school play also gives us a chance to pay the students for a job well done. But there might be a little resistance to employing any additional school personnel from the administration .....
UNLESS.....
they are going to be a six figured DEPUTY.
Well KEVIN MCHUGH doesn't even have to come up with a new line item to fund paying our student actors and actresses. We pay them with ATTENTION. Positive attention, a little limelight. A spotlight even. Flowers don't grow in the dark.
We need more chances to turn the lights on. We spend too much energy on numbers that don't grow in the dark they just expand.
My EX-WIFE was right when she said IMPORTANT PEOPLE were going to be there last night. Her problem was she didn't realize who those important people were. That's because those people were all the sons and daughters on the stage.
AND....
Important people read my BLOG. COREY JACKSON of ARTS AFTER DARK fame and all that down town ARTS scene. Well to make a long story, short, he wants to hook up with some of the school people to coordinate.
That's how EDUCATION should run. We need to take advantage of our natural resources. I guess I think like that maybe cause I'm from WV and we had plenty of coal and timber.
In these tough economic times we need leadership to navigate the ever-expanding field to capture all available resources.
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