One of the best parts of my job is when I spend a morning shadowing one of our students. This ground level perspective of our schools is always refreshing and in some cases revealing. I spent this morning at Skyview trailing a sophomore.
When I attend class with a student, I split my time between following the lesson and watching the students. Inevitibly, I notice some students keenly engaged in the teaching and others who are distracted. But what I do not see in our high schools is a lot of what you might label as attitude. The sullen, defiant behavior that you sometimes see in high school students does not appear to be present in very many of our teens.
While I can’t say that we don’t have some students with attitude, it is clear that if we do, they are in the minority. I view this as a reflection of a series of things including the positive relationships that our teachers and administrators have with our students as well as a lack of some of the pressures that you find in a larger school setting. I feel that it is important that we take a moment to appreciate the fact that our students are pretty good kids.
Lacking Attitude
One of the best parts of my job is when I spend a morning shadowing one of our students. This ground level perspective of our schools is always refreshing and in some cases revealing. I spent this morning at Skyview trailing a sophomore.
When I attend class with a student, I split my time between following the lesson and watching the students. Inevitibly, I notice some students keenly engaged in the teaching and others who are distracted. But what I do not see in our high schools is a lot of what you might label as attitude. The sullen, defiant behavior that you sometimes see in high school students does not appear to be present in very many of our teens.
While I can’t say that we don’t have some students with attitude, it is clear that if we do, they are in the minority. I view this as a reflection of a series of things including the positive relationships that our teachers and administrators have with our students as well as a lack of some of the pressures that you find in a larger school setting. I feel that it is important that we take a moment to appreciate the fact that our students are pretty good kids.