Real Pro's

The top professionals and those who provide the best service to a profession come from that profession. Surgeons don't get advice on surgery from janitors. Firefighters don't get advice from pipefighters. The best people to advise teachers are those who come from the profession.

It is time that state legislators, who likely never taught students in a school setting, stop advising educators on how to operate the profession and teach our nation's children. It is time that the typical layperson, though having attended schools, stop advising principals and teachers about how to run a classroom. It is way past time for media pundits to stop telling educators how to handle education.

What these groups can do is reinforce and support what educators do with our nation's students. As citizens of this country we ought to stand up and support our teachers and staff personnel just as we would, rightly, support our military in the line of duty.

Dick