In the absence of our regular discussions, I thought I\u00a0 should post something. The board looked too empty…<\/p>\n
Here is a picture I see. Every day the crowd wakes up on a\u00a0 choo-choo that is going about 80 on a dirt road. The conductor (newly positioned\u00a0 due to popularity) knows full well that the station is just ahead. When a\u00a0 passenger questions the choice, the conductor is righteously indignant and fires\u00a0 back that the path and choice must be right. There are several cognitively\u00a0 neutered and scared “co-signers” who shout down the questioning passenger. The\u00a0 conductor with newly reinforced credibility and support states calmly that the\u00a0 course must be true because that is what we have been doing and besides he just\u00a0 turned slightly, tooted the horn and increased the speed! He is working hard!\u00a0 “Do you have any idea how difficult it is to drive a train through a forest?\u201d he\u00a0 shouts. The vehement expressions of surety and calmness sooth the fear of the\u00a0 passengers. Tensions ease with the passengers reinforcing their corroboration\u00a0 with a little justification with the fact that they have never driven a train\u00a0 and feel that since he has for a minute it equals that 100% more experience than\u00a0 they have, so they defer. The Lemming Express plunges off a cliff. The next\u00a0 day’s headline reads, “Conductor a hero for saving lives of those not hit!”\u00a0 Further in the paper the article reads, “Railroad sued for not laying track\u00a0 through the forest and failure to post warning lights on the dirt road”.<\/p>\n
Band-Aids are good for scrapes and minor cuts. Our society\u00a0 is sick, broken and on that dirt road going 80 and we are concerned with getting\u00a0 the Scooby-Doo Band-Aids and not the Spider Man. I see our profession (along\u00a0 with educators and clergy) as the ones with the introspection, education and\u00a0 theoretical wherewithal to demand the conductor step down so we can course\u00a0 correct.<\/p>\n
I am not talking about politics. I am talking about\u00a0 foundations for the paths on which will travel. Progress cannot be simply\u00a0 defined as moving in a direction that some think is right. What do we have to\u00a0 show for our progress and choices?<\/p>\n
— R. A. Grier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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