Courageous Leadership vs. Criticism and Over-Politicization
Feeling melancholy by the outside critics and our sometime lawmakers who are so overtly critical of the public education system in our country, over politicize decisions that affect our poorest kids, and fail to act with courage...and yet have never walked side-by-side with the kids/teachers/principals who need them the most. Reminded me of one of my heroes. The Man in the Arena-Theodore Roosevelt-1910 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who a