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As I travel recruiting high school football players, I am amazed to witness how many high school coaches are being fired. Agreed, some need to move on but others have only been at the school for a couple seasons.
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I had a Twitter conversation with someone and mentioned that public education should take a lesson from professional football. The NFL will fire a coach that produces losses for too long. That person reminded me that football teams are private entities that expect success. The franchise’s profitability relies on the coach’s ability to produce a winning, money-making team. If a coach is not demonstrating the expected level of success, that coach expects to be and will be fired. Publicly.
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A troubled couple went to see a marriage counselor. After many sessions with unsuccessful attempts to get the couple to view their problems in the same way, the counselor was feeling frustrated with their stonewalling.
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We are in the home stretch of the holiday season. For many of us it will be a joyful reunion with family and friends. For the Alzheimer’s caregiver, that Norman Rockwell holiday illustration is just a reminder of a different time.
Read moreIn 2001, the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas junior college football bowl game began. This year features the Tyler Junior College Apaches and the regular season first place Kansas Jayhawk Conference Coffeyville Red Ravens, Saturday, Dec. 4, beginning at 4:05 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Commerce.
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The purpose of a school board is to oversee and govern school districts. Board members are elected by the community and are responsible to represent the community in meetings and decision-making. Board members should have student achievement as their first and ultimate goal of serving as a trustee on a school board. With the increasing chaos surrounding school board meetings, student achievement is clearly not the priority.
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Things have changed. Well, of course they have – everything changes. But I’m specifically talking about games – and not organized games, like football (although that has changed, too, as in the NFL making kickoffs kinder and gentler.) No, I mean more informal games. I’m thinking of one my big brother used to run during our church’s “Royal Rangers” (our denomination’s version of the Boy Scouts) meetings, when he was in charge of the older guys.
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